The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 57

“But the question is, what shall we hunt?”

Who acts: question · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: question

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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	_	10 hunt	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 question	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hunt	nsubj:outer
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 question	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hunt	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 hunt	obj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hunt	aux
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hunt	nsubj
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 hunt	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the question					tree rules
2	hunt in a quote	shall	the question						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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