English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 56
“What are you a-doing of?”, says she.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, say · To what, where: cook · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. 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 | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 doing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 doing | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 a | punct |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 says | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 doing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | cook | tree rules |
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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