The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 78
‘And to whom do these wonders belong?’ asked Peronnik in amazement.
Who acts: wonders · What happens: belong, ask · To what, where: Peronnik, amazement
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonders), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 whom | cc |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 whom | case |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 asked | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 belong | aux |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 wonders | det |
| 7 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 belong | nsubj |
| 8 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whom | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 whom | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 whom | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 amazement | case |
| 14 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present · do-support | this wonders | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Peronnik | amazement | tree rules |
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 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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