The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 51

“What are you doing there?” cried he; “why did you palm off those bones on me?

Who acts: you, fox · What happens: do, cry · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox), 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 cried	csubj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 doing	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 did	advmod
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 did	obj
16	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 bones	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 bones	det
19	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 did	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 did	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	you		there		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	fox				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	past	fox not said here	you		off that bones; on fox	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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