The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 90
‘From singing in England; but wherefore dost thou ask?’
What happens: sing, do, ask · To what, where: England, thou
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. 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 | _ | 3 singing | punct |
| 2 | From | from | SCONJ | _ | 3 singing | mark |
| 3 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 England | case |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 singing | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 dost | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 dost | cc |
| 8 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 dost | advmod |
| 9 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 singing | parataxis |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 dost | obj |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dost | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 singing | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 singing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | England | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location | |||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | wherefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | 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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