The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 52
“What are you doing there?” asked he, for he was always afraid of things that he did not understand.
Who acts: turtle · What happens: do, ask, be, not understand · To what, where: turtle, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (turtle), 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 | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 doing | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 afraid | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | cop |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 afraid | advmod |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 things | case |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 afraid | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 understand | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 understand | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 understand | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 understand | advmod |
| 23 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 things | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | turtle | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | turtle | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | turtle | of things; afraid, always property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not understand | past · do-support | turtle | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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