The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 150
‘What is the matter with you, that you are making all this disturbance?’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, make · To what, where: matter, disturbance
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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 matter | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 making | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 making | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 making | aux |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 matter | parataxis |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 disturbance | det:predet |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 disturbance | det |
| 15 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter | with you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present · progressive | you | all disturbance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disturbance=Product |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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