The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 80

“How do you do, brother-in-law?

Who acts: you · What happens: do

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 law	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · do-support	you						vn act-114-1 «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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