The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 30

“Why should I not look at the Sister of the Sun?” he thought to himself; “she is asleep, and will never know.”

Who acts: boy, sun · What happens: not look, think, be, not know · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, sun), 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 look	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 look	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 Sister	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sister	det
9	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sun	det
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sister	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 look	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 thought	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 asleep	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 asleep	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asleep	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	cop
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 know	cc
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 know	advmod
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 look	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not look in a quote	should	boy		at the Sister of the Sun	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	boy	boy		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	sun		asleep property	tree rules
4	not know in a quote	future	boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 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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