The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 91
‘Whence came this ring?’ asked she, ‘for such good luck is not wont to befall thee.’
Who acts: ring · What happens: come, ask, not be, befall · To what, where: wife, thee
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring), 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 came | punct |
| 2 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wont | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wont | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 luck | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 luck | amod |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wont | obl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wont | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 wont | advmod |
| 18 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 befall | mark |
| 20 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wont | csubj |
| 21 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 befall | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wont | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wont | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this ring | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | for such good luck; wont property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | befall | to-infinitive | thee | 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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