The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 29
“What are you doing here?” asked the bee in a cross voice; “at your age you ought to be safe at home.”
Who acts: you, bee · What happens: do, ask, be · To what, where: cross voice, age · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bee), 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 | here | here | 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bee | det |
| 11 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | compound |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 safe | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 safe | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 age | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 age | nmod:poss |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 safe | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 safe | nsubj |
| 22 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 safe | aux |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 safe | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 safe | cop |
| 25 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 safe | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 safe | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the bee | a cross voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | ought | you | at your age | at home; safe property | 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 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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