The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 91

‘Pardon me, your excellency, but what sort of treasure was it supposed to have been?

Who acts: you · What happens: pardon, suppose, have, sort · To what, where: me, sort, treasure

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. 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	_	2 Pardon	punct
2	Pardon	pardon	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Pardon	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 excellency	punct
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 excellency	nmod:poss
6	excellency	excellency	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pardon	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 supposed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 supposed	cc
9	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 sort	det
10	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 supposed	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 treasure	case
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sort	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 supposed	aux:pass
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 supposed	nsubj:pass
15	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Pardon	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 have	mark
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 supposed	xcomp
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 have	xcomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Pardon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pardon	imperative	you not said here	me	your excellency obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	suppose	past · passive		what sort of treasure		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sort			treasure		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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