The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 37

‘Where are we going to?’ asked he.

Who acts: we · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	_	5 going	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 going	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 asked	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 going	fixed
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	we						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			horse				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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