The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 140

“Good mother, does no one ever eat here?

Who acts: Good mother, one · What happens: do, eat · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good mother, one), 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 eat	advmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 one	acl
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 eat	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present	Good mother	no one					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
2	eat in a quote	infinitive	no one not said here			here	ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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