The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 81
"And what are you doing out of your palace at this time of night?" asked the pig keeper, severely.
Who acts: you, pig keeper · What happens: do out, ask · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pig keeper), 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 | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 doing | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 doing | obj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doing | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 keeper | det |
| 20 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keeper | compound |
| 21 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 severely | punct |
| 23 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 18 asked | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do out in a quote | present · progressive | you | your palace | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the pig keeper | severely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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