The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 9

‘Hast thou thatched the byre, king’s son?’

Who acts: thou · What happens: have, thatch · To what, where: byre

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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	_	2 Hast	punct
2	Hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 thatched	nsubj
4	thatched	thatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hast	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 byre	det
6	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thatched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 byre	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present							tree rules
2	thatch	past	thou	the byre and king's son					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent byre=Destination

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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