The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 13
‘What in the world are you doing?’ asked a passer-by.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: passer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 doing | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 doing | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 doing | nsubj |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 passer | det |
| 13 | passer | passer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 by | punct |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 passer | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a passer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent passer=Recipient 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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