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title: “My daughter’s beauty places her higher than anything upon earth,” s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My daughter’s beauty places her higher than anything upon earth,” she cried; “and I am certainly not going to accept a son-in-law who is beneath her.” Who acts: place, law. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 45

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“My daughter’s beauty places her higher than anything upon earth,” she cried; “and I am certainly not going to accept a son-in-law who is beneath her.”

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**Who acts:** place, law · **What happens:** cry, not go, accept, be · **To what, where:** law · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, law), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:17:45
# text = “My daughter’s beauty places her higher than anything upon earth,” she cried; “and I am certainly not going to accept a son-in-law who is beneath her.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | place |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | place |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **accept** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | place *not said here* | a law |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a law |  |  |  |  | beneath place | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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