The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 24

‘Ho! ho! my little fellow, what are you doing there?’ asked Hans, and, without waiting for an answer, gave him a kick which sent him flying down the stairs.

Who acts: you, Ho ho, kick, fellow · What happens: do, ask, wait, give, send, fly · To what, where: little fellow, Hans, kick, fellow, stairs

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ho ho, kick, fellow), 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	_	4 ho	punct
2	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ho	compound
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ho	punct
4	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ho	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fellow	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 doing	obj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 doing	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 doing	nsubj
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fellow	acl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 doing	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 asked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 waiting	mark
23	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 gave	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 answer	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 answer	det
26	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 waiting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waiting	punct
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 kick	det
31	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sent	nsubj
33	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 kick	acl:relcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sent	obj
35	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 sent	xcomp
36	down	down	ADP	_	38 stairs	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stairs	det
38	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flying	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	you	my little fellow		there		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	Ho ho		Hans			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent han=Recipient
3	wait	gerund					for a answer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past	Ho ho not said here	a kick	fellow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kick=Theme
5	send	past	a kick	fellow				tree rules
6	fly	gerund	fellow not said here			the stairs		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stair=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 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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