The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 62

‘Hallo!’ he shouted to him, ‘why are you carrying wood through a forest?’

Who acts: Hallo, you · What happens: shout, carry · To what, where: Simpleton, wood, forest

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, 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 shouted	nsubj
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 shouted	nsubj
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shouted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 carrying	advmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 carrying	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 carrying	nsubj
14	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 shouted	advcl
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Hallo		Simpleton				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	carry	present · progressive	you	wood		a forest			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

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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