More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 34
"Seven long years I served for thee, The glassy hill I clomb for thee, Thy bloody clothes I wrang for thee; And wilt thou not waken and turn to me?"
Who acts: damsel, glassy hill, bloody clothes, thou · What happens: serve, clomb, wrang, not waken, turn · To what, where: damsel
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, glassy hill, bloody clothes, thou), 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 | _ | 6 served | punct |
| 2 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 served | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 served | nsubj |
| 6 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 served | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clomb | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 11 | glassy | glassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hill | amod |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clomb | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 clomb | nsubj |
| 14 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 served | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 thee | case |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 clomb | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrang | punct |
| 18 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 clothes | amod |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 wrang | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wrang | nsubj |
| 22 | wrang | wrang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clomb | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 thee | case |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 wrang | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 waken | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 waken | cc |
| 27 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 30 waken | aux |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 waken | nsubj |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 waken | advmod |
| 30 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 served | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turn | cc |
| 32 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 waken | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 turn | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | past | the damsel = damsel | year | for thee | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | clomb in a quote | the glassy hill | for thee | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wrang in a quote | Thy bloody clothes | for thee | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not waken in a quote | future | thou | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | the damsel = damsel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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