The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 33
‘Hallo!’ he called out, ‘what are you doing down there?’
Who acts: you · What happens: call out, do down · To what, where: Hallo
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). 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 Hallo | punct |
| 2 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 doing | obj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 doing | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 doing | nsubj |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 called | parataxis |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 there | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 doing | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 doing | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | Hallo | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | do down | present · progressive | you | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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