The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 50

‘But what are you whistling like that for?’

Who acts: you · What happens: whistle

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (you), 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	_	6 whistling	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 whistling	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 whistling	obj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 whistling	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 whistling	nsubj
6	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 whistling	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	6 whistling	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 whistling	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 whistling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	present · progressive	you					like that	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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