The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 31

The younger sister could not imagine why she was to keep off, and thought to herself: ‘If they are both there, why should not I be there too?’

Who acts: younger sister, sister, daughters, I · What happens: not imagine, be, think, not be · To what, where: sister

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger sister, sister, daughters, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imagine	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 imagine	advmod
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 keep	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 keep	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 imagine	ccomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 keep	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
15	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 imagine	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 thought	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 there	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 there	punct
20	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 there	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 there	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 there	cop
23	both	both	ADV	_	24 there	advmod
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 imagine	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 there	punct
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 there	advmod
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 there	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 there	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 there	nsubj
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 there	cop
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 there	parataxis
32	too	too	ADV	_	31 there	advmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not imagine	could	the younger sister			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	is	past	sister		keep property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	participle	the younger sister not said here	sister		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	daughters = daughter		both, there property	tree rules
5	not is	should	I		there property	tree rules

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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