The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 100

‘And why should I not warm myself?’

Who acts: I · What happens: not warm · To what, where: myself

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. 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	_	7 warm	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 warm	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 warm	advmod
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 warm	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 warm	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 warm	advmod
7	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 warm	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 warm	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not warm	should	I	myself					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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