The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 20

“O Lady Latifa,” he said, “I have made a compact with heaven not to sit down off my feet till I have been to Waq of Qaf and have cleared up this matter, and have taken Mihrafruz from her father, as brave men take, and have put her in prison.

Who acts: brilliance, brave men · What happens: say, make, not sit down, be, clear up, take · To what, where: compact, matter, Mihrafruz, prison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brilliance, brave men), 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 said	punct
2	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 Lady	case
3	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
4	Latifa	Latifa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Lady	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Lady	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Lady	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 compact	det
15	compact	compact	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 heaven	case
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 sit	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	advcl
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sit	compound:prt
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 feet	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sit	obl
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 Waq	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 Waq	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Waq	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 Waq	cop
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Waq	case
30	Waq	Waq	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sit	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Qaf	case
32	Qaf	Qaf	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Waq	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cleared	cc
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 cleared	aux
35	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sit	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 cleared	compound:prt
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 matter	det
38	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cleared	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 taken	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 taken	cc
41	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 taken	aux
42	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
43	Mihrafruz	Mihrafruz	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 taken	obj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 father	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 father	nmod:poss
46	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 taken	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 take	punct
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 take	mark
49	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 men	amod
50	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 take	nsubj
51	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 taken	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 put	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 put	cc
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 put	aux
55	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 put	obj
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 prison	case
58	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 put	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	brilliance			of Lady	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	present · perfect	brilliance	a compact		with heaven	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compact=Product
3	not sit down in a quote	to-infinitive	brilliance not said here			off my feet	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present · perfect	brilliance			to Waq; of Qaf	tree rules
5	clear up in a quote	present · perfect	brilliance not said here	this matter			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent matter=Source
6	take in a quote	present · perfect	brilliance not said here	Mihrafruz		from Mihrafruz's father	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mihrafruz=Theme from father=Initial_Location
7	take in a quote	present	brave men				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	put in a quote	present · perfect	brilliance not said here	Mihrafruz	prison		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in prison=Destination

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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