The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 14

What made you dress yourself all in white?

Who acts: you · What happens: make, dress · To what, where: you, yourself, white

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 dress	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 yourself	det
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 white	case
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dress	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		you					tree rules
2	dress	infinitive	you not said here	yourself		white			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient

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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