The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 66
'What are you doing lingering here, when the life of the princess is nearing its last moment?
Who acts: you, life · What happens: do, linger, near
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, life), 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 | root | root |
| 6 | lingering | linger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 doing | advcl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lingering | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nearing | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 nearing | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nearing | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 nearing | aux |
| 16 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 doing | advcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 moment | nmod:poss |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moment | amod |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nearing | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | 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 | linger | gerund | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | near | present · progressive | the life of the princess | moment | 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: «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/pg3027/29/66/