The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 38
‘Mother, what are you doing?’ cried she.
Who acts: you, Mother · What happens: do, cry · To what, where: Mother, ogress
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mother), 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 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 doing | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Mother | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | Mother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Mother | ogress | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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