More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 48

I only regret that I have had to tone down so much of dialect in her versions.

Who acts: I · What happens: regret, have down · To what, where: tone

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 regret	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 regret	advmod
3	regret	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 regret	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tone	mark
9	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	xcomp
10	down	down	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 dialect	case
14	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 much	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 versions	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 versions	nmod:poss
17	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 much	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 regret	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regret	present	I						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have down	present · perfect	I	tone				down property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=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: «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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