Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 38
"What are you doing, you children?" cried the gentle lady; "that is sinful!"
Who acts: you, gentle lady, that · What happens: do, cry, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, gentle lady, that), 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 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | obl |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 you | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sinful | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sinful | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sinful | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sinful | cop |
| 19 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 sinful | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sinful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the gentle lady | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | sinful property | tree rules |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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