The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 23

‘What have you been saying about me to all my people?’

What happens: say · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	6 saying	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 have	obj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 saying	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 saying	aux
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 saying	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 people	det:predet
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 people	nmod:poss
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saying	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · perfect · progressive			my people			about me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient

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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