The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 66
Then she began to say, “Why should I not marry?”
Who acts: princess · What happens: begin, say, not marry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 marry | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 marry | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 marry | advmod |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 marry | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 marry | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 marry | advmod |
| 12 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | princess | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not marry in a quote | should | princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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