The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 12
‘What are you in need of, or what has sent you here?’
What happens: be, send · To what, where: need, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 need | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 need | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 need | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 need | case |
| 6 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 sent | mark |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 need | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | iobj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 sent | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 need | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | need | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | need | you | here | 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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