The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 153

‘Who’s been cutting with my little knife?’

What happens: cut

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 cutting	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cutting	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cutting	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cutting	aux
5	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 knife	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knife	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knife	amod
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutting	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cutting	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cutting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present · progressive						with my little knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument

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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