The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 43

The Princess’s father, who had never ceased to repent his harshness towards his daughter, had sought her through the land, but as no one could tell him anything of her, he supposed her dead.

Who acts: father · What happens: not cease, repent, seek, tell, suppose · To what, where: father, harshness, Princess, land, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Princess	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sought	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ceased	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ceased	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ceased	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 ceased	advmod
9	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 father	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 repent	mark
11	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ceased	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 harshness	nmod:poss
13	harshness	harshness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repent	obj
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 daughter	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repent	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sought	aux
19	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sought	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 land	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 land	det
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sought	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 one	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obl
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 sought	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 tell	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 anything	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 supposed	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 supposed	nsubj
37	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 supposed	obj
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 supposed	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not cease	past · perfect · passive		the Princess's father				tree rules
2	repent	to-infinitive		father's harshness			towards father's daughter	tree rules
3	seek	past · perfect	the Princess's father	Princess		the land		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme through land=Location
4	tell speech: assert	could		anything	father		as no one	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic
5	suppose	past	father	Princess			dead property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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