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title: That night he asked Zengi-mizi, in whom sat the spirit of his father… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That night he asked Zengi-mizi, in whom sat the spirit of his father, what he had better ask Sipao for next? Who acts: Sipao, father. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 98

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That night he asked Zengi-mizi, in whom sat the spirit of his father, what he had better ask Sipao for next?

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**Who acts:** Sipao, father · **What happens:** ask, sit, have · **To what, where:** Zengi mizi, spirit, father, Sipao

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Sipao, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:2:98
# text = That night he asked Zengi-mizi, in whom sat the spirit of his father, what he had better ask Sipao for next?
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mizi	mizi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	Sipao	Sipao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Sipao | Zengi mizi |  |  | night |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mizi=Recipient |
| 2 | **sit** | past |  | the spirit of Sipao's father |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spirit=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Sipao | Sipao's father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Sipao's father *not said here* |  | Sipao |  |  | for next | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sipao=Recipient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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