The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 38
‘Hallo! what are you doing, hopping on one leg?’
Who acts: Hallo · What happens: do, hop · To what, where: one leg
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 (Hallo), 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 | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 doing | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hopping | punct |
| 9 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 doing | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 leg | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 leg | nummod |
| 12 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hopping | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | Hallo | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hop | gerund | Hallo not said here | one leg | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
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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