The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 82

Tell me what goes on nowadays; are the ladies as fond of amusement as ever?

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, go, be · To what, where: me, ladies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 nowadays	case
6	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	4 goes	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ladies	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ladies	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ladies	det
10	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 fond	case
12	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ladies	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 amusement	case
14	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ladies	nmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 ever	case
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Tell	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	go	present					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on nowadays=Location
3	is a	present		the ladies		as fond; of amusement	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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