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title: ‘Fellow, what are you puffing at up there?’ asked the man. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Fellow, what are you puffing at up there?’ asked the man. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 14

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‘Fellow, what are you puffing at up there?’ asked the man.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** puff, ask · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. 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.

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**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:pg640:19:14
# text = ‘Fellow, what are you puffing at up there?’ asked the man.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	puffing	puff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puff** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Source |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the man |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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