The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 30

‘What is that you can do?’ laughed the gentleman.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: gentleman

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. 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	_	7 do	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laughed	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gentleman	det
12	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughed	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can · present	you					do property	tree rules
2	laugh	past		the gentleman					tree rules

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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