The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 12

‘Then why are you here?’ she said, opening her eyes and staring at him.

Who acts: you, woman · What happens: be, say, open, stare · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 why	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 here	advmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 here	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 here	nsubj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 said	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 opening	punct
12	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 opening	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 staring	cc
16	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 opening	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 staring	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	open	gerund	woman not said here	woman's eyes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	stare	gerund	woman not said here		at king	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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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