The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 98

That night he asked Zengi-mizi, in whom sat the spirit of his father, what he had better ask Sipao for next?

Who acts: Sipao, father · What happens: ask, sit, have · To what, where: Zengi mizi, spirit, father, Sipao

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sipao, father), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mizi	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Zengi	punct
7	mizi	mizi	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spirit	det
13	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 father	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spirit	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 had	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 father	acl:relcl
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 ask	amod
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	Sipao	Sipao	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ask	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 next	case
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ask	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Sipao	Zengi mizi		night		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mizi=Recipient
2	sit	past		the spirit of Sipao's father				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spirit=Theme
3	have	past	Sipao	Sipao's father				tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Sipao's father not said here		Sipao		for next	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sipao=Recipient

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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