The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 121

One day she asked Kisika why the thirteenth dish came daily to the table and was sent daily away untouched, but Kisika knew no more about it than she did.

Who acts: daughter, thirteenth dish, Kisika · What happens: ask, come, send, know, do · To what, where: Kisika, table, more

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, thirteenth dish, Kisika), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	iobj
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dish	det
8	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dish	amod
9	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	advcl
11	daily	daily	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sent	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sent	aux:pass
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 came	conj
18	daily	daily	ADV	_	19 away	advmod
19	away	away	ADV	_	17 sent	advmod
20	untouched	untouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 away	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 knew	cc
23	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 knew	obj
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 more	nmod
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 more	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	daughter		Kisika		day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kisika=Recipient
2	come	past	the thirteenth dish			the table		daily property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location
3	send	past · passive	the thirteenth dish not said here					away property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»
4	know	past	Kisika	more				about table	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
5	do	past	daughter						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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