The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 143
“And why not, good mother?”
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. 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 mother | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mother | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 not | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mother | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mother | amod |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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