The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 56

Maria turned round to pluck them, and found herself face to face with the gardener, who caught hold of her, exclaiming, “What are you doing here, you little thief?”

Who acts: Maria, gardener, you · What happens: turn, pluck, find, catch, exclaim, do · To what, where: medlars, Maria, hold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria, gardener, 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	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pluck	mark
5	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 round	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pluck	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 found	obj
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 face	case
13	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 face	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 gardener	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gardener	det
16	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 caught	nsubj
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gardener	acl:relcl
20	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hold	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 exclaiming	punct
24	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 caught	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 doing	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 doing	punct
27	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 doing	obj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 doing	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 doing	nsubj
30	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 exclaiming	conj
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 doing	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thief	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 thief	nsubj
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thief	amod
35	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	parataxis
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 thief	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 thief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Maria			round property	tree rules
2	pluck	to-infinitive	Maria not said here	medlars = medlar			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	find	past	Maria not said here	Maria		with the gardener	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Theme face=Attribute
4	catch	past	the gardener	hold of Maria			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	exclaim speech: express	gerund	the gardener not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	do in a quote	present · progressive	you		here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	thief in a quote		you				tree rules
8	hold			Maria			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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