English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 19

Then he said: “Whatever are you three doing, sitting there crying, and letting the beer run all over the floor?”

Who acts: gentleman, you, three, beer · What happens: say, be, do, sit, cry, let · To what, where: three, beer, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, you, three, beer), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct
6	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 three	det:predet
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 three	cop
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 three	nsubj
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 doing	nsubj
10	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 doing	conj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sitting	advmod
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sitting	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 letting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 letting	cc
17	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 doing	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beer	det
19	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 letting	obj
20	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 letting	xcomp
21	all	all	ADV	_	24 floor	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 floor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floor	det
24	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 run	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	gentleman			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	you	whatever three			tree rules
3	do in a quote	gerund	whatever three				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit in a quote	gerund	whatever three not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	whatever three not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	let in a quote	gerund	whatever three not said here	the beer			tree rules
7	run in a quote	present	the beer not said here		the floor		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory

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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