More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 35

Why should it when I am but a fellow-servant?" the girl said.

Who acts: notion, girl · What happens: be, say · To what, where: fellow servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notion, girl), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 servant	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 servant	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 servant	nsubj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 servant	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 servant	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 servant	cop
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 servant	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 servant	det
9	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fellow	punct
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	notion	a fellow servant					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the girl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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