The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 8
‘What would become of a dolt like you?’ she answered.
Who acts: mother · What happens: become, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 dolt | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dolt | det |
| 7 | dolt | dolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dolt | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | of a dolt like you | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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