The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 46

“‘What is the cure for your blindness?’

What happens: be · To what, where: cure

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: 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	_	6 cure	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 What	punct
3	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 cure	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cure	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cure	det
6	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 blindness	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 blindness	nmod:poss
9	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cure	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cure	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the cure				for your blindness	tree rules

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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