The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 9
'What are you doing?' asked the witch, as her daughter kept tugging at the handle.
Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: do, ask, keep, tug · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter), 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 | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 kept | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 16 | tugging | tug | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 kept | xcomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 handle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 handle | det |
| 19 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tugging | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the witch | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | girl's daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tug | gerund | girl's daughter not said here | at the handle | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at handle=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/9/