The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 37
What do you mean by running after a young fellow through the fields like that?
Who acts: you · What happens: mean, run · To what, where: fields
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 running | mark |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 mean | advcl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 fellow | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fellow | amod |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 running | obl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 running | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fields | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | you not said here | the fields like that | after a young fellow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=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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