The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 68
‘My child, who are you, and what in the wide world are you doing here?’
Who acts: child, you · What happens: be, do · To what, where: you, child
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (child, 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 | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 child | nmod:poss |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 you | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 you | cop |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 child | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 doing | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 doing | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | obl |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 doing | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 doing | nsubj |
| 17 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 child | parataxis |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 doing | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 doing | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My child | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | you | My child | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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