The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 6
How, then, do you expect to do it all by yourself?
Who acts: you · What happens: expect, do · To what, where: stall
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 then | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 expect | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 expect | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 expect | nsubj |
| 7 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expect | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 yourself | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 yourself | case |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present · do-support | you | then | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | stall | by yourself | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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