The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 32

Why do you sit there and get wet?

Who acts: you · What happens: sit, get

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sit	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sit	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · do-support	you			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	infinitive	you not said here					wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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