The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 45

‘Why should you not enter my service?

Who acts: you, my · What happens: not enter, service · To what, where: service

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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, my), 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 enter	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 enter	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 enter	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 enter	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 enter	advmod
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 service	nmod:poss
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enter	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 enter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not enter	should	you	my service					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
2	service		my						nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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