The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 22

“Oh! in heaven’s name what are you doing here?” said she who sat upon the bench.

Who acts: you, life, heaven · What happens: do, say, sit, name · To what, where: bench · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, life, heaven), 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	_	11 doing	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 doing	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 name	case
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 heaven	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	obl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 doing	obj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 doing	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 bench	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bench	det
21	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	you	here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	past	life	the bench	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bench=Location
4	name in a quote		heaven		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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