The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 86
‘Why not?’ asked Hans.
What happens: not ask · To what, where: Hans
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. 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 | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 asked | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 asked | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | past | Hans | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent han=Recipient |
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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