The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 114
Why are you so late, and why are you not wearing wedding garments?’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not wear · To what, where: wedding garments
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 late | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 wearing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wearing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wearing | cc |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 wearing | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wearing | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 wearing | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wearing | advmod |
| 12 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garments | compound |
| 14 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wearing | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 wearing | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wear | present · progressive | you | wedding garments | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source |
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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