The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 67
What misfortune has brought you to this dismal place?”
What happens: bring · To what, where: misfortune
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 misfortune | det |
| 2 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 place | det |
| 8 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | what misfortune | to this dismal place | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination |
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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