The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 6

For whom, then, are prefaces written?

What happens: be, write · To what, where: prefaces

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prefaces	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 prefaces	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prefaces	punct
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 prefaces	cop
7	prefaces	preface	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whom	appos
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 prefaces	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		prefaces			then		tree rules
2	write	participle		prefaces not said here					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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