The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 116

“But what will I do in regard of the pie?”

Who acts: woman · What happens: do, regard · To what, where: regard, pie

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	_	6 do	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 regard	case
8	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pie	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pie	det
11	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regard	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	future	woman			regard of the pie			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	regard in a quote			the pie					nom regard «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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