More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 16

Why may I not have the same privilege as any other story-teller, especially when I know the ways of story-telling as she is told in English, at least as well as a Devonshire or Lancashire peasant?

Who acts: I, ways · What happens: not have, know, tell · To what, where: same privilege, ways, defence, English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ways), 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	5 have	advmod
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 privilege	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 privilege	amod
8	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	14 teller	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 teller	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 teller	amod
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teller	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 story	punct
14	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 know	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ways	det
21	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 know	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 telling	mark
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 telling	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 story	punct
25	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 ways	acl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 told	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux:pass
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 telling	ccomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 English	case
31	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 told	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 as	punct
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 least	case
34	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 as	obl
35	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	19 know	advmod
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 as	fixed
37	as	as	ADP	_	42 peasant	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 peasant	det
39	Devonshire	Devonshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 peasant	compound
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 Lancashire	cc
41	Lancashire	Lancashire	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Devonshire	conj
42	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obl
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	may	I	the same privilege		as any other story teller	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=Patient
2	know	present	I	the ways		as a Devonshire peasant; especially property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus as peasant=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the ways not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive		defence	English		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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: «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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