English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 32
“What are you about there?” asked the farmer, pulling up.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: be, ask, pull up · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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 | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 there | case |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulling | punct |
| 13 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 pulling | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the farmer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pull up | gerund | the farmer not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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