--- title: “Dear father!” pleaded the prince, “until I have lowered the pride o… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Dear father!” pleaded the prince, “until I have lowered the pride of that beauty, and have set her here before you, I cannot settle down or indeed sit down off my feet.” Who acts: Dear father. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:2:17 # text = “Dear father!” pleaded the prince, “until I have lowered the pride of that beauty, and have set her here before you, I cannot settle down or indeed sit down off my feet.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 pleaded plead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lowered lower VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 settle settle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 33 down down ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 off off ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plead** *speech: request* | past | Dear father | the prince | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lower** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Dear father *= father* | the pride of that beauty | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme | | 3 | **set** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Dear father *= father* *not said here* | tongue | | here | before you | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme before you=Destination | | 4 | **not** **settle down** *in a quote* | can | Dear father *= father* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **sit down** *in a quote* | infinitive | Dear father *= father* *not said here* | | | | | off my feet; indeed *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pride** *in a quote* | | | that beauty | | | | | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/18/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/)