The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 39
“What unholy pranks are these?
What happens: be · To what, where: these
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. 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 | _ | 4 pranks | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pranks | nsubj |
| 3 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pranks | amod |
| 4 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 these | cop |
| 6 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 pranks | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pranks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | these | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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