The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 16

What do you mean?’ asked the poor man, who was quite bewildered with his sudden rush through the air, and could not think why he should be accused of this fresh crime.

Who acts: you, man · What happens: mean, ask, bewilder, not think, accuse, rush · To what, where: poor man, man, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	ccomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bewildered	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 bewildered	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bewildered	aux:pass
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 bewildered	advmod
15	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 man	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 rush	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 rush	nmod:poss
18	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rush	amod
19	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bewildered	obl
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rush	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 think	cc
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 think	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 think	advmod
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	conj
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 accused	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 accused	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 accused	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 accused	aux:pass
32	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 think	ccomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 crime	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 crime	det
35	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 crime	amod
36	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 accused	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	you					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past			the poor man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bewilder	past · passive		the poor man			with man's sudden rush through the air	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	not think speech: other	could						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	accuse	should · passive		man			of this fresh crime	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme of crime=Attribute
6	rush		man			the air		nom rush «act transitive»: poss=agent through=place

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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