The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 104
‘Good-day to thee, lord; and what art thou doing?’
Who acts: thou · What happens: do
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. 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 | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 doing | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 thee | case |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 day | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 doing | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 doing | obj |
| 12 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 doing | aux |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 doing | nsubj |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | thou | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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