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title: ‘Whence came this ring?’ asked she, ‘for such good luck is not wont… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Whence came this ring?’ asked she, ‘for such good luck is not wont to befall thee.’ Who acts: ring. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 91

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‘Whence came this ring?’ asked she, ‘for such good luck is not wont to befall thee.’

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**Who acts:** ring · **What happens:** come, ask, not be, befall · **To what, where:** wife, thee

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ring), 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:pg3454:38:91
# text = ‘Whence came this ring?’ asked she, ‘for such good luck is not wont to befall thee.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this ring |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | wife |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for such good luck; wont *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **befall** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | 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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