More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 42

"Cheerless is the evening grey When Causleen hath died away, But ever bright and ever fair Are they who breathe this evening air, And lean upon the self-bored stone Unseen by all but me alone."

Who acts: Cheerless, Causleen, feet · What happens: be, have, die away, lean · To what, where: evening grey, bored stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (Cheerless, Causleen, feet), 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 Cheerless	punct
2	Cheerless	Cheerless	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grey	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grey	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grey	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grey	compound
6	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	When	when	SCONJ	_	9 hath	mark
8	Causleen	Causleen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hath	nsubj
9	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grey	advcl
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hath	ccomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 died	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bright	punct
13	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 bright	cc
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 bright	advmod
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grey	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fair	cc
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 fair	advmod
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bright	conj
19	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 breathe	cop
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 breathe	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 breathe	nsubj
22	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bright	conj
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 air	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 air	compound
25	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 breathe	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lean	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 lean	cc
28	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 breathe	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 stone	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stone	det
31	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bored	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 self	punct
33	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stone	amod
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lean	obl
35	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lean	conj
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 all	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 Unseen	obl
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 me	cc
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 lean	conj
40	alone	alone	ADV	_	28 lean	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grey	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 grey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Cheerless	the evening grey				tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	Causleen					tree rules
3	die away in a quote	past	Causleen not said here				away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	be in a quote		Cheerless not said here			ever		tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	feet = foot				breathe property	tree rules
6	lean in a quote	infinitive	feet = foot not said here		the bored stone		alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location

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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