English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 10

But she was a brave girl and said: “What are you doing here, young man, to come and startle me so?

Who acts: door, you · What happens: be, say, do, come, startle · To what, where: brave girl, young man, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 she	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 doing	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 doing	obj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 doing	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 doing	nsubj
14	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 doing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 doing	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 startle	cc
23	startle	startle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 startle	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	23 startle	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		a brave girl		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	door			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	present · progressive	you	young man	here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	come in a quote	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	startle in a quote	infinitive		door		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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