The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 6
Do ladies put these questions to the men--lawyers, dentists, clergymen, and so forth--who happen to sit next them at dinner parties?
Who acts: ladies · What happens: put, happen, sit · To what, where: questions, dinner parties
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: who acts (ladies), 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 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | aux |
| 2 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 questions | det |
| 5 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 men | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 lawyers | punct |
| 10 | lawyers | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 men | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dentists | punct |
| 12 | dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 men | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clergymen | punct |
| 14 | clergymen | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 men | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happen | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 happen | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 forth | advmod |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 happen | advmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 happen | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 happen | nsubj |
| 21 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sit | mark |
| 23 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 happen | xcomp |
| 24 | next | next | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sit | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 parties | case |
| 27 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 parties | compound |
| 28 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sit | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive · do-support | ladies | this questions | to the men and lawyers and dentists and clergymen | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal | |||
| 2 | happen | present | forth property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit | to-infinitive | dinner parties | next ladies = lady | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent next they=Location |
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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