The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 26
“What are you doing here, my pretty child?” asked the Queen.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 doing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | the Queen = queen | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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