The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 83
‘Why have they shut you up, poor boy?’
Who acts: farmers · What happens: have, shut up · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmers), 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 shut | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shut | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shut | nsubj |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 shut | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 shut | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boy | punct |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boy | amod |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shut | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | farmers = farmer not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shut up | present | farmers = farmer | you | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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