The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 77

“Why? to go to the forest, of course.”

What happens: go · To what, where: forest

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 course	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 course	case
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	to-infinitive				the forest		of course	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location of course=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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