The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 11

To-morrow we will settle what your wages are to be.’

Who acts: we, wages · What happens: settle, be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wages), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 morrow	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 settle	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 settle	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 settle	aux
6	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 settle	obj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wages	nmod:poss
9	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 what	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 what	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 settle	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 settle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	future	we					to morrow	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	your wages						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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