The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 63

‘Why shouldn’t we go now?’ asked the little soldier.

Who acts: we · What happens: not go, ask · To what, where: little soldier

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 go	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 n’t	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 n’t	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 go	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soldier	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soldier	amod
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present	we				now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past		the little soldier					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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