The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 134

‘Indeed!’ said the old man; and what are they doing there?’

Who acts: men · What happens: say, do · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 said	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 doing	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 doing	obj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 doing	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 doing	nsubj
14	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	parataxis
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 doing	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the old man				indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	do	present · progressive	men = man			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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