The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 69
‘What, my pretty child, are you all alone?’
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 alone | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 child | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 alone | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 alone | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 alone | det |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 alone | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 alone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | alone property | 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 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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