The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 73

“What are you constantly muttering to yourself?”

Who acts: you · What happens: mutter · To what, where: yourself

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. 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 muttering	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 muttering	obj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 muttering	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 muttering	nsubj
5	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	6 muttering	advmod
6	muttering	mutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 yourself	case
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 muttering	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 muttering	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 muttering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	you		yourself			constantly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to yourself=Recipient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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