The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 39

“HER daughter should never marry a mere rat,” she declared, holding her head high.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: not marry, declare, hold · To what, where: mere rat, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (daughter), 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 marry	punct
2	HER	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 daughter	nmod:poss
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marry	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 marry	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 marry	advmod
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 declared	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rat	det
8	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rat	compound
9	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marry	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 marry	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 marry	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 declared	nsubj
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 holding	punct
15	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 declared	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 holding	obj
18	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 holding	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not marry in a quote	should	mother's daughter	a mere rat		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient
2	declare speech: other	past	Daughter			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	hold	gerund	Daughter not said here	mother's head	high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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