The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 86

‘Going where?’ inquired the monkey.

What happens: go, inquire · To what, where: monkey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. 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	_	2 Going	punct
2	Going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 inquired	ccomp
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	2 Going	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Going	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Going	punct
6	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inquired	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	past		the monkey					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient clause=Topic

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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