The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 17
‘What in the world are you all doing that you don’t come upstairs, and that you let the beer run all over the cellar?’
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not come, let, run · To what, where: beer, cellar
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. 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 | _ | 9 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 doing | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 doing | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 doing | nsubj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 doing | advcl |
| 15 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 run | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 run | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 let | nsubj |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 run | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beer | det |
| 22 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 doing | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 cellar | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 cellar | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cellar | det |
| 27 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 doing | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not come | present · do-support | you | upstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | present | you | the beer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | present | you not said here | the cellar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cellar=Trajectory |
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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