The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 24

After all, what do two boxes on the ear matter?’

What happens: do · To what, where: two boxes, ear matter

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 all	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 all	acl:relcl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 boxes	nummod
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 matter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 matter	det
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 matter	compound
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 all	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		two boxes		the ear matter			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 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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