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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 46

Then, after wishing all kinds of good fortune to the lion and his family, he inquired if he was on the right road to Kerglas.

Who acts: lion · What happens: wish, inquire, be · To what, where: kinds, Kerglas, right road

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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

advmodpunctmarkadvcldetobjcaseamodnmodcasedetnmodccnmod:possconjpunctnsubjmarknsubjcopcasedetamodadvclcasenmodpunctrootThenADV,PUNCTafterSCONJwishingVERBallDETkindsNOUNofADPgoodADJfortuneNOUNtoADPtheDETlionNOUNandCCONJhisPRONfamilyNOUN,PUNCThePRONinquiredVERBifSCONJhePRONwasAUXonADPtheDETrightADJroadNOUNtoADPKerglasPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem18 inquiredadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Thenpunct
3afterafterSCONJ_4 wishingmark
4wishingwishVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 inquiredadvcl
5allallDETPronType=Tot6 kindsdet
6kindskindNOUNNumber=Plur4 wishingobj
7ofofADP_9 fortunecase
8goodgoodADJDegree=Pos9 fortuneamod
9fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing6 kindsnmod
10totoADP_12 lioncase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 liondet
12lionlionNOUNNumber=Sing9 fortunenmod
13andandCCONJ_15 familycc
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 familynmod:poss
15familyfamilyNOUNNumber=Sing12 lionconj
16,,PUNCT_4 wishingpunct
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 inquirednsubj
18inquiredinquireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
19ififSCONJ_25 roadmark
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 roadnsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 roadcop
22ononADP_25 roadcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 roaddet
24rightrightADJDegree=Pos25 roadamod
25roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing18 inquiredadvcl
26totoADP_27 Kerglascase
27KerglasKerglasPROPNNumber=Sing25 roadnmod
28..PUNCT_18 inquiredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wishgerundlion not said hereall kinds of good fortune to the lion and lion's familyvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme
2inquire speech: otherpastlionthenvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is a condition, not said to happenpastlionKerglasthe right roadtree 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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