The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 40

The black cow watched him with surprise for some time, and then said: ‘What are you doing, sonny?’

Who acts: black cow, you · What happens: watch, say, do · To what, where: maiden, sonny · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black cow, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	amod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 watched	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 surprise	case
7	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	advmod
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 watched	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 doing	obj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 doing	nsubj
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sonny	punct
22	sonny	sonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 doing	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the black cow	maiden	time	with surprise	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the black cow not said here		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present · progressive	you	sonny			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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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