The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 4
“What do you mean by hitting my fork like that, and making me prick myself?”
Who acts: you · What happens: mean, hit, make, prick · To what, where: fork, me, myself
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 mean | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 hitting | mark |
| 7 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 mean | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fork | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hitting | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hitting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prick | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prick | cc |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 prick | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | prick | prick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mean | conj |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 prick | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | gerund | you not said here | my fork | like that | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fork=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | gerund | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||||
| 4 | prick in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | myself | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Patient |
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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