The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 85
“But, Princess, what can have led you here?”
What happens: lead · To what, where: Princess
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: 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 | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 led | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 led | aux |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 led | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in a quote | can · perfect · passive | Princess | here | 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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