The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 29

‘But the instant breakfast was over they began again their cuckoo-cry of “What will you do?”

Who acts: Fairies, you · What happens: begin, do, cry · To what, where: cuckoo cry

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Fairies, 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	_	9 began	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 over	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 breakfast	det
4	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breakfast	amod
5	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 over	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 over	cop
7	over	over	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 began	advmod
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cry	nmod:poss
12	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cry	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 cuckoo	punct
14	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	obj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 do	obj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cry	acl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	Fairies = fairy	Fairies's cuckoo cry	again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Eventuality
2	do in a quote	future	you	Fairies's cuckoo cry		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	cry		Fairies = fairy			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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