The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 31

'Why may I not go where you can go?'

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not go, go

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	_	6 go	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 go	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	may	I						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	can	you						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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