More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 60
"What art talking about?" says she.
Who acts: art · What happens: talk about, say · To what, where: art · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (art), 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 talking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 art | det |
| 3 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 says | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 talking | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk about in a quote | gerund | what art | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | art | 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: «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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