Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 21
'Why should I not be married?'
What happens: not marry · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 married | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 married | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 married | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not marry | should · passive | I | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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