The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 26
‘Good master, is there anything we can do for thee?’
Who acts: Good master · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good master), 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 | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 master | amod |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | cop |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 do | expl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 do | nsubj |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 thee | case |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 do | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | Good master | there | for thee; do property | 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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