The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 128

What should any man be doing here?’

Who acts: man · What happens: do

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 doing	aux
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 doing	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · progressive	any man			here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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