The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 78

“Whose sheep are these, and what are they doing here?” asked the old man in wonder, and his son told him.

Who acts: sheep, old man, son · What happens: be, do, ask, tell · To what, where: these, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, old man, son), 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	_	15 asked	punct
2	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 sheep	nmod:poss
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 these	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 these	cop
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 asked	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 doing	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 doing	obj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 these	acl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 doing	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 these	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 wonder	case
20	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	sheep	these			tree rules
2	do in a quote	present · progressive	sheep			here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	past	the old man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	youth's son		youth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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