The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 23

What are you thinking about all alone by yourself?

Who acts: you · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 thinking	obj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 alone	case
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 alone	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 thinking	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 yourself	case
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thinking	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					by yourself; think property	tree rules

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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