The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 35
‘What sort of a guest are you bringing to me?’
Who acts: sort · What happens: bring, sort · To what, where: me, guest
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort), 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 | _ | 9 bringing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 sort | det |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bringing | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 guest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guest | det |
| 6 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sort | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bringing | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bringing | nsubj |
| 9 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bringing | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 bringing | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 bringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · progressive | what sort of a guest | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sort | a guest | 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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