The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 22

‘But WHY do you need a son so much at present?

Who acts: you · What happens: need · To what, where: son

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. 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 need	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 need	cc
3	WHY	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	6 need	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 present	case
12	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 much	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	you	a son					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme

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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