The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 16

“O light of your father!” he cried, “I have no one left but you, and now you ask me to let you go to your death.”

Who acts: prince, you, your · What happens: cry, leave, ask, let, go, light · To what, where: prince, you, death, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, you, your), 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	_	3 light	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 light	discourse
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	parataxis
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 light	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 light	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 left	aux
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	parataxis
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 you	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 left	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ask	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ask	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 ask	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ask	nsubj
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ask	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 let	mark
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 death	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 death	nmod:poss
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	prince					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave in a quote	present · perfect						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	you		prince		now	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	let not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	you				tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			your death		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to death=Initial_Location
6	light in a quote			your father				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
7	die in a quote		your					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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