The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 76

‘Heavens, mother,’ said he, ‘where are you coming from at such a whirlwind pace, and what makes you in such a dripping condition?’

Who acts: Heavens, you · What happens: say, come, make, drip · To what, where: you, dripping condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heavens, 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	_	2 Heavens	punct
2	Heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Heavens	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Heavens	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Heavens	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 coming	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 coming	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 coming	advmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 coming	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 coming	nsubj
14	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	20 pace	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 pace	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 pace	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pace	det
19	whirlwind	whirlwind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pace	amod
20	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coming	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 makes	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 makes	nsubj
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 makes	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 condition	case
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 condition	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 condition	det
29	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 condition	amod
30	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 makes	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Heavens and mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	present · progressive	you			from such whirlwind pace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pace=Initial_Location
3	make	present		you	such dripping condition		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product
4	drip	gerund					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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