The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 3

What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

Who acts: you · What happens: do

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants and the Grasshopper. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	obl
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 summer	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 summer	amod
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	you				summer		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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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