The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 6

He is accustomed to being asked, by ladies, ‘Have you written anything else except the Fairy Books?’

Who acts: ladies, you · What happens: accustom, ask, write · To what, where: Editor, anything

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 accustomed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 accustomed	aux:pass
3	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 asked	mark
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asked	aux:pass
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 accustomed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ladies	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 ladies	case
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 written	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 written	punct
12	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 written	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 written	nsubj
14	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 accustomed	advcl
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 written	obj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 anything	advmod
17	except	except	ADP	_	20 Books	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Books	det
19	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Books	compound
20	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 anything	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 accustomed	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accustom	present · passive		Editor		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund · passive	ladies			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write	present · perfect	you	anything	except the Fairy Books	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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