The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 96

'But the cheeses may be all finished by now?'

What happens: finish · To what, where: cheeses

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	_	8 finished	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 finished	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cheeses	det
4	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 finished	nsubj:pass
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 finished	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 finished	aux:pass
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 finished	nsubj:pass
8	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 now	case
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 finished	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 finished	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	may · passive		the cheeses					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=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.

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