The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 45

They all asked how she could want to go to church when she had nothing to wear but that wooden gown, which was so black and hideous.

Who acts: others, Kari, wooden gown · What happens: ask, want, go, have, wear, be · To what, where: church, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Kari, wooden gown), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 want	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 church	case
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 had	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 wear	mark
17	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 gown	cc
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 gown	det
20	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gown	amod
21	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 black	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 black	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 black	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 black	advmod
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gown	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hideous	cc
28	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 black	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	others = other				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	could	Kari				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kari not said here		church		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
4	have	past	Kari	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	wear	to-infinitive	Kari not said here	nothing not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	that wooden gown			black property	tree rules
7	be		that wooden gown not said here				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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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