The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 23

Is it by your orders that I am here?’

Who acts: meaning, I · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning, I), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 orders	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 orders	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 orders	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 orders	nmod:poss
5	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 here	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 here	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 here	cop
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 orders	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	meaning					by your orders	tree rules
2	is	present	I					here property	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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