The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 71
‘And wherefore?’ asked Kai.
What happens: ask · To what, where: Kai
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. 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 | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wherefore | cc |
| 3 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 asked | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wherefore | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wherefore | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Kai | wherefore property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kai=Recipient |
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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