The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 45

“My daughter’s beauty places her higher than anything upon earth,” she cried; “and I am certainly not going to accept a son-in-law who is beneath her.”

Who acts: place, law · What happens: cry, not go, accept, be · To what, where: law · 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 (place, law), 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	_	8 higher	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 daughter	nmod:poss
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 places	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 daughter	case
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 places	compound
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 higher	nsubj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 higher	nmod:poss
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 cried	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 anything	case
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 higher	obl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 earth	case
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anything	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 higher	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 higher	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 going	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 going	advmod
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cried	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 accept	mark
26	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 law	det
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 law	nsubj
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 law	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 law	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 in	punct
32	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accept	obj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 her	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 her	cop
35	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 law	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	place			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go in a quote	present · progressive	place		certainly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	accept in a quote	to-infinitive	place not said here	a law		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	a law		beneath place	tree rules

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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