The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 111
‘What is that to you?’ was the answer; ‘mind your own business.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, mind · To what, where: that, own business
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 mind | obl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 What | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 14 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 business | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 business | amod |
| 17 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mind | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mind | imperative | you not said here | your own business | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
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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