The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 45

You look like succeeding—you who have never done anything else but lie and poke about among the ashes!’ said they.

Who acts: You, ashes · What happens: look, succeed, not do, lie, poke about, say · To what, where: anything, ashes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ashes), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 succeeding	mark
4	succeeding	succeed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 look	advcl
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 done	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 done	advmod
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 said	ccomp
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 done	obj
12	else	else	ADV	_	11 anything	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 lie	cc
14	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 poke	cc
16	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lie	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 poke	advmod
18	among	among	ADP	_	20 ashes	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ashes	det
20	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 poke	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 look	parataxis
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	You				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	succeed	gerund	You not said here				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not do	present · perfect	you	anything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	lie	infinitive	you not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	poke about	infinitive	you not said here		the ashes	about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among ash=Location
6	say speech: assert	past	ashes = ash				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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