The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 3

‘What cases are you engaged in at present?’

What happens: engage in · To what, where: cases, present

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. 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 engaged	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 engaged	obj
3	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 engaged	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 engaged	aux:pass
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 engaged	nsubj
6	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 engaged	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 present	case
9	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engaged	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 engaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage in	present · passive		cases		present			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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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