The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 105

‘What else should one beg of the sea-king but fish?

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. 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	_	6 beg	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 beg	nsubj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 What	advmod
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 beg	aux
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 beg	nummod
6	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 king	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sea	punct
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beg	nmod
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 fish	cc
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 king	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 beg	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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.

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