The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 38

There he found a little old woman who said to him ‘What are you doing here?

Who acts: man, little old woman, you · What happens: find, say, do · To what, where: little old woman, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, little old woman, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 found	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 doing	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 doing	obj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 doing	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 doing	nsubj
16	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 doing	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	man	a little old woman		there	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	a little old woman		man		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	do	present · progressive	you			here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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