More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 63

"What the dickens," said the squire, "do you mean by lying in the middle of the road like that?"

Who acts: dickens, you · What happens: dickens, say, mean, lie · To what, where: squire, middle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dickens, 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	_	4 dickens	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 dickens	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dickens	det
4	dickens	dickens	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dickens	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dickens	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 squire	det
9	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 mean	nsubj
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 lying	mark
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 mean	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 middle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 middle	det
19	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 road	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 road	det
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 middle	nmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 lying	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dickens in a quote						tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the dickens	the squire			tree rules
3	mean in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	lie in a quote	gerund	you not said here		the middle of the road	like that	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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