The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 51

I am so overworked, and I don’t see why I should not have a page as well as other ladies.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, not see, not have · To what, where: page · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 overworked	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 overworked	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 overworked	advmod
4	overworked	overworked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 overworked	parataxis
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 have	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 have	advmod
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 page	det
17	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	15 have	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 ladies	case
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ladies	amod
22	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overworked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		overworked property	tree rules
2	not see	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not have	should	I	a page	as other ladies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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