The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 94

‘Why those are the ladies-in-waiting playing their games; I must go down to them.’

Who acts: ladies · What happens: be, wait, play, go down · To what, where: ladies, games

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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	_	17 go	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 go	advmod
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 ladies	det
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ladies	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladies	det
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 waiting	punct
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 waiting	mark
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 in	punct
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ladies	conj
11	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 waiting	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 games	nmod:poss
13	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 playing	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that ladies			tree rules
2	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	play	gerund		ladies's games			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
4	go down	must	that ladies		games = game	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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