The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 19

‘But what can you do, my dear children?

Who acts: you · What happens: do · To what, where: dear children

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. 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	_	6 do	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 children	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 children	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	you	my dear children					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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