The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 250

‘Oh, I am asking you what you have done with the night-gown and sheet that you got to wipe the blood off yourself with,’ said she.

Who acts: I, you, sheet, wife · What happens: ask, do, get, wipe off, say · To what, where: you, sheet, blood · 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 (I, you, sheet, wife), 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	_	6 asking	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 asking	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 asking	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asking	aux
6	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asking	obj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 done	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 asking	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 gown	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gown	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gown	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
16	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sheet	cc
18	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gown	conj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 got	obl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sheet	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wipe	mark
23	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 got	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 blood	det
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wipe	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	23 wipe	compound:prt
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 wipe	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	23 wipe	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asking	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 asking	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	I		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	present · perfect	you			with the night gown and sheet	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	get	past	you	sheet			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	wipe off	to-infinitive	sheet not said here	the blood		yourself obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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