The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 45
‘What are you standing staring at there, stupid?’ said his wife.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, stare, say · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. 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 | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 standing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 standing | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 there | case |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 staring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stupid | punct |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 standing | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present · progressive | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at there=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fish's wife | tree rules |
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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