---
title: ‘What are you doing there?’ called the wizard, ‘do you mean to hollo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What are you doing there?’ called the wizard, ‘do you mean to hollow out for yourself a bed in that huge column?’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/26/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/26/) / 1

# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘What are you doing there?’ called the wizard, ‘do you mean to hollow out for yourself a bed in that huge column?’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, call, mean, hollow out · **To what, where:** wizard, bed, huge column · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:26:1
# text = ‘What are you doing there?’ called the wizard, ‘do you mean to hollow out for yourself a bed in that huge column?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	hollow	hollow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · progressive | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  | the wizard |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wizard=Recipient |
| 3 | **mean** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hollow out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a bed |  | that huge column |  | for yourself | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/94/)
- next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/26/2/)
- ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/26/)