English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 76

“Who are you, then?” says the young man.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, say · 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	_	9 says	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 says	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Who	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Who	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Who	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you				then		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	present							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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