The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 6
“What do you here?” questioned the other.
What happens: do, question · To what, where: you, other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 8 questioned | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 do | obj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 questioned | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 do | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 8 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 questioned | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | you | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | the other | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
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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