The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 112

'What were you going to do, comrade?'

What happens: go, do · To what, where: comrade

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 going	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comrade	punct
9	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive							vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive		comrade					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/112/