Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 81

Whence come you, and what is your craft?"

What happens: come, be · To what, where: you, craft

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. 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	Whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 come	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 craft	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 craft	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 craft	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 craft	cop
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 craft	nmod:poss
9	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 craft	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 craft	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present		you				whence property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
2	is a	present		your craft					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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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