The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 110
‘Do you call this a fair fight?
Who acts: you · What happens: call · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. 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 | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fight | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fight | amod |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | you | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient |
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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