The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 71

You diggers, tell me: Who was it you heard singing over the work?'

Who acts: You, diggers · What happens: digger, tell, be, hear, sing · To what, where: me, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, diggers), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 diggers	nsubj
2	diggers	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 diggers	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
7	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 heard	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 it	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Who	nsubj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
12	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 heard	xcomp
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 work	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 work	det
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	digger		You				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	diggers		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a	past		work			tree rules
4	hear	past					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	sing speech: express	gerund				the work	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over work=Location

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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