The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 3

‘What are you doing here, friend?’ asked the stranger; ‘darkness is falling fast, and soon the wild beasts will come from their lairs to seek for food.’

Who acts: you, darkness, wild beasts · What happens: do, ask, fall, come, seek · To what, where: stranger, lairs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, darkness, wild beasts), 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 doing	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	ccomp
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 doing	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 friend	punct
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stranger	det
13	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	iobj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 falling	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 falling	punct
16	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 falling	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 falling	aux
18	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	ccomp
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 falling	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 come	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beasts	det
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beasts	amod
25	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 falling	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 lairs	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lairs	nmod:poss
30	lairs	lair	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 come	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 seek	mark
32	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	advcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 food	case
34	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seek	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	you		here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past		the stranger			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fall	present · progressive	darkness			fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	future	the wild beasts		beasts's lairs	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lair=Initial_Location
5	seek	to-infinitive	the wild beasts not said here			for food	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

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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