The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 81

‘What are you thinking of, my son?’ answered the old woman, aghast at the idea.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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	_	5 thinking	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thinking	obj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thinking	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thinking	nsubj
5	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 answered	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 son	case
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinking	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 aghast	punct
17	aghast	aghast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 idea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 idea	det
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 aghast	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					of my son; think property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the old woman				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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