The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 10

‘Who are you, and what do you want?’ asked the old man roughly.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, want, ask · To what, where: you, old man

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 you	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 you	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 you	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 want	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 you	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
17	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	13 asked	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		you			tree rules
2	want	present · do-support	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	you		the old man	roughly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=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 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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