The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 38
Do you call that proper behaviour?’
Who acts: you · What happens: call · To what, where: proper behaviour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 behaviour | det |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 behaviour | amod |
| 6 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | you | that proper behaviour | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent behaviour=Recipient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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