The Aesop for Children, The Young Crab and His Mother, sentence 1

"Why in the world do you walk sideways like that?" said a Mother Crab to her son. "

Who acts: you, Mother Crab · What happens: walk, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Young Crab and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mother Crab), 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	_	8 walk	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 walk	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Why	obl
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 walk	nsubj
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
9	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 walk	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Crab	det
16	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Crab	compound
17	Crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 son	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Crab	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk in a quote	present · do-support	you					like that; sideways property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	a Mother Crab						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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