The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 135

‘Good evening! good evening!’ said the old hag; ‘but what errand have you that can bring you here?

Who acts: errand · What happens: say, errand, bring · To what, where: old hag, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (errand), 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	_	3 evening	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 evening	amod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evening	compound
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 evening	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 evening	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hag	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hag	amod
12	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 errand	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 errand	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 errand	nsubj
17	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bring	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 bring	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 you	nmod:unmarked
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bring	aux
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 bring	obj
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 bring	advmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the old hag			tree rules
2	errand						tree rules
3	bring	can · present	errand		you	here	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument 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 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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