The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 17

“Dear father!” pleaded the prince, “until I have lowered the pride of that beauty, and have set her here before you, I cannot settle down or indeed sit down off my feet.”

Who acts: Dear father · What happens: plead, lower, set, not settle down, sit down, pride · To what, where: prince, pride, tongue, beauty · 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 (Dear father), 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 father	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleaded	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
6	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleaded	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lowered	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 lowered	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 lowered	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lowered	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lowered	aux
14	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 pleaded	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pride	det
16	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lowered	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 beauty	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 beauty	det
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pride	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 set	cc
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 set	aux
23	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lowered	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	obj
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 set	advmod
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 set	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 settle	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 settle	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 settle	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 settle	advmod
32	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pleaded	parataxis
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 settle	compound:prt
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 sit	cc
35	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	36 sit	advmod
36	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 settle	conj
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 sit	compound:prt
38	off	off	ADP	_	40 feet	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 feet	nmod:poss
40	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sit	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	Dear father	the prince				tree rules
2	lower in a quote	present · perfect	Dear father = father	the pride of that beauty				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme
3	set in a quote	present · perfect	Dear father = father not said here	tongue	here	before you		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme before you=Destination
4	not settle down in a quote	can	Dear father = father					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	sit down in a quote	infinitive	Dear father = father not said here				off my feet; indeed property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pride in a quote			that beauty				nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=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: «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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