More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 69

So when his wife brought him a daughter, bonny as bonny could be, he cared nought for her, and said, "Let me never see her face."

Who acts: wife, daughter, gentleman · What happens: bring, be, care, say, let, not see · To what, where: gentleman, nought, wife, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, daughter, gentleman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 brought	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 be	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bonny	punct
10	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 bonny	case
12	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bonny	nmod
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 be	aux
14	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 brought	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cared	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cared	nsubj
17	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
18	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 cared	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cared	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
26	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 Let	obj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 see	advmod
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Let	advcl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	gentleman's wife	gentleman		tree rules
2	can	could	a daughter and bonny as bonny			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	care	past	gentleman	nought	for daughter	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	gentleman's wife not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		gentleman's wife = wife		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	not see in a quote	present		daughter's face		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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