The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 29

“Loveliest of maidens,” he stammered, bowing low before her, “let me gaze into your dear eyes, and read in them that you will no longer refuse my love, but will make me the happiest being the sun shines upon.”

Who acts: Loveliest, you, happiest sun, my · What happens: stammer, bow, let, gaze, read, refuse · To what, where: Loveliest, love, happiest sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Loveliest, you, happiest sun, my), 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 Loveliest	punct
2	Loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 stammered	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 maidens	case
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Loveliest	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Loveliest	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Loveliest	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stammered	nsubj
8	stammered	stammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bowing	punct
10	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stammered	advcl
11	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bowing	advmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bowing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stammered	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	gaze	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 eyes	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eyes	amod
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gaze	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 read	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 read	cc
25	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 read	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 refuse	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 refuse	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 refuse	aux
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 refuse	advmod
33	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 read	advcl
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 love	nmod:poss
35	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 refuse	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 make	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 make	cc
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	parataxis
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 make	obj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun	det
42	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 sun	amod
43	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 sun	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun	det
45	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shines	nsubj
46	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 make	parataxis
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 shines	compound:prt
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stammer speech: other	past	Loveliest of maidens				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bow	gerund	Loveliest of maidens not said here		before hair	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
3	let in a quote	infinitive		Loveliest of maidens = lovely			tree rules
4	gaze in a quote	infinitive	Loveliest of maidens = lovely not said here			into your dear eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
5	read in a quote	infinitive				in eyes = eye	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	refuse in a quote	future	you	my love		long property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme
7	make in a quote	future		Loveliest of maidens = lovely			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
8	is a in a quote	gerund		the happiest sun			tree rules
9	shine upon in a quote	present	the happiest sun				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	love in a quote		my				nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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