The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 24

“Of course I’ll say it; why should I not say it?

Who acts: king · What happens: 'll, say, not say · To what, where: course · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (king), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 ’ll	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’ll	nsubj
5	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	advcl
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ’ll	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 ’ll	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 say	advmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 say	advmod
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	'll in a quote	present	king		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	king not said here	course	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	not say speech: assert in a quote	should	king	course	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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