The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 14

‘Fellow, what are you puffing at up there?’ asked the man.

Who acts: you · What happens: puff, ask · To what, where: man

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. 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	_	2 Fellow	punct
2	Fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 asked	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 puffing	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 puffing	obj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 puffing	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 puffing	nsubj
7	puffing	puff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Fellow	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 there	case
9	up	up	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 puffing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 puffing	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fellow	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	puff	present · progressive	you						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Source
2	ask speech: ask	past			the man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient

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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