The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 62

“Sweetest and fairest of damsels,” cried the gnome, “do not be angry; everything that is in my power I will do—but do not ask the impossible.

Who acts: Sweetest · What happens: cry, not be, be, do, not ask · To what, where: gnome, power, impossible · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweetest), 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 Sweetest	punct
2	Sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 cried	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fairest	cc
4	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 Sweetest	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 damsels	case
6	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fairest	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sweetest	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sweetest	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gnome	det
11	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 angry	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 angry	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 angry	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 angry	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 angry	cop
17	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 everything	punct
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 angry	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 power	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 power	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 power	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 power	nmod:poss
24	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 everything	acl:relcl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 power	acl:relcl
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 ask	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 ask	cc
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 ask	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 ask	advmod
32	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 impossible	det
34	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ask	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Sweetest	the gnome			tree rules
2	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support				angry property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present			my power		tree rules
4	do in a quote	future	Sweetest = sweet	my power not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
5	not ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Sweetest not said here	the impossible			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent impossible=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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