The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 56
‘“O knight, what has brought thee hither?
What happens: bring · To what, where: knight
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. 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 | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knight | punct |
| 3 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 knight | discourse |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knight | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 8 brought | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | knight | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination thou=Theme |
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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