The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 1
‘What are you doing there?’ called the wizard, ‘do you mean to hollow out for yourself a bed in that huge column?’
Who acts: you · What happens: do, call, mean, hollow out · To what, where: wizard, bed, huge column · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 doing | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 doing | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wizard | det |
| 11 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 mean | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mean | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 mean | nsubj |
| 16 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 doing | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hollow | mark |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mean | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 hollow | compound:prt |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 yourself | case |
| 21 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 hollow | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bed | det |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hollow | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 column | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 column | det |
| 26 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 column | amod |
| 27 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hollow | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the wizard | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wizard=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | mean | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hollow out not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a bed | that huge column | for yourself | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
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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