Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 19

"An' what are you doing with that box and dice I see in your hand?"

Who acts: An, good man · What happens: do, see · To what, where: box, hand

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (An, good man), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doing	nsubj:outer
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 An	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 box	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 box	det
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dice	cc
12	dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	conj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 box	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	An					with that box and dice	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	see in a quote	present	my good man = man	that box and dice not said here		your hand			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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