English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 3
What are you doing, my lady, my lady, What are you doing, my lady?
Who acts: you · What happens: do · To what, where: lady
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 doing | obj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lady | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lady | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lady | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lady | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 doing | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 doing | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 doing | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 doing | nsubj |
| 15 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 lady | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lady | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lady | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 doing | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | my lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | you | my lady | my lady obl | 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: «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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