The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 103

That is what I ought to have asked for.

Who acts: That · What happens: be, ask

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 what	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ought	nsubj
5	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 asked	mark
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	aux
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 what	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	8 asked	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive · perfect	That not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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