Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 34

"What colour do you want the mare to be?"

Who acts: colour, mare · What happens: want, be · To what, where: mare

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colour, mare), 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 want	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 colour	det
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mare	det
8	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 be	mark
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present · do-support	what colour	the mare					tree rules
2	be not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the mare not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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