The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 166

‘What on earth do you want here?’ said one of them to the old woman.

Who acts: you, one · What happens: want, say · To what, where: earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:876): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 want	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 earth	case
4	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 What	nmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 want	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 said	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 woman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	you			earth; here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	one of horses					to the old woman	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to woman=Experiencer 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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