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title: ‘And to whom do these wonders belong?’ asked Peronnik in amazement. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And to whom do these wonders belong?’ asked Peronnik in amazement. Who acts: wonders. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 78

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‘And to whom do these wonders belong?’ asked Peronnik in amazement.

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**Who acts:** wonders · **What happens:** belong, ask · **To what, where:** Peronnik, amazement

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonders), 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:pg3454:26:78
# text = ‘And to whom do these wonders belong?’ asked Peronnik in amazement.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present · do-support | this wonders |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Peronnik | amazement |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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