The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 24
‘Stop,’ cried Martin; ‘where are you dragging that poor cat?’
Who acts: you · What happens: stop, cry, drag · To what, where: Martin
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. 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 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragging | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragging | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 dragging | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dragging | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 dragging | nsubj |
| 12 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | ADP | _ | 15 cat | case |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cat | amod |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragging | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragging | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Martin | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martin=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drag | present · progressive | you | that poor cat | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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