Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Master, sentence 87

"What are you doing there, you rascal?"

Who acts: you · What happens: do, rascal

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Master. 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	_	5 doing	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 doing	obj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 doing	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rascal	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 rascal	nsubj
9	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · progressive	you			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	rascal in a quote		you						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: «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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