Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 46
"Who are you?" said the bishop, "and what are you doing here?"
Who acts: you · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: bishop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bishop | det |
| 9 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bishop | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bishop | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 doing | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 doing | obj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 doing | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 doing | nsubj |
| 16 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 doing | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 doing | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the bishop | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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