The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 56

‘Why should I not speak as well as you?

Who acts: I · What happens: not speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 speak	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 speak	advmod
6	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	10 you	cc
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 as	fixed
9	as	as	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 speak	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	should	I						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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