The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 145

“Is it your custom never to eat?”

Who acts: money, custom · What happens: be, not eat · To what, where: custom

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 (money, custom), 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 eat	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 custom	nsubj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 custom	nmod:poss
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 eat	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	money	your custom					tree rules
2	not eat in a quote	to-infinitive	your custom						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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