The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 50
‘What are you doing in my wood?’ asked the Maneater, coming up.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, ask, come up · To what, where: wood, Maneater · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. 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 | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Maneater | det |
| 13 | Maneater | Maneater | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | my wood | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Maneater | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent maneater=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come up | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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