The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 110
But how was the stealing to be done?
What happens: be, do · To what, where: stealing
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stealing | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stealing | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stealing | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stealing | det |
| 5 | stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 done | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stealing | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stealing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the stealing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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