The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 82

‘Why cannot you marry someone in your own rank?

Who acts: you · What happens: not marry · To what, where: someone, own rank

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 marry	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 marry	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 marry	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 marry	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 marry	nsubj
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 marry	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 rank	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 rank	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rank	amod
11	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marry	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	can	you	someone		your own rank			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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