The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 48

“Let him go back to the land whence he came,” he shouted in wrath; “does he expect me to give my daughter to an exile?”

Who acts: you, prince, young man · What happens: let, go back, come, shout, expect, give · To what, where: prince, wrath, young man, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince, young man), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shouted	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shouted	nsubj
15	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 wrath	case
17	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shouted	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 expect	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 expect	punct
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 expect	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 expect	nsubj
22	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 expect	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 expect	xcomp
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	iobj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 exile	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 exile	det
30	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	prince				tree rules
2	go back in a quote	infinitive	prince not said here				to the land	tree rules
3	come in a quote	past	prince				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shout speech: express	past	prince			wrath		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	expect in a quote	present · do-support	prince	the young man = man				tree rules
6	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the young man = man not said here		my daughter		to a exile	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to exile=Recipient

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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