The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 55
“What are you looking at, Michael?” asked the magpie, who was watching him from a bough.
Who acts: you, magpie · What happens: look, ask, watch · To what, where: Michael, magpie, bough · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, magpie), 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 | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 looking | obl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 looking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Michael | punct |
| 8 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 magpie | det |
| 13 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 watching | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 watching | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 watching | aux |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 magpie | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 watching | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 bough | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bough | det |
| 21 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watching | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · progressive | you | Michael | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the magpie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | the magpie | magpie | a bough | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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