The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 94
She sung this verse to him, sighing and sobbing, and kept singing it the night long, and it was all in vain:
Who acts: silk, verse · What happens: sing, sigh, sob, keep, be · To what, where: verse, prince
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silk, verse), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sung | nsubj |
| 2 | sung | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 verse | det |
| 4 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sung | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sung | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighing | punct |
| 8 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sung | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sobbing | cc |
| 10 | sobbing | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sighing | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sung | conj |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 kept | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 singing | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 singing | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 singing | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vain | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 vain | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 vain | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 vain | cop |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 vain | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 vain | case |
| 25 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sung | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | silk | this verse | prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent verse=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | sigh | gerund | silk not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sob | gerund | silk not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | past | silk not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | silk not said here | verse | night | long property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||
| 6 | is | past | verse | all, vain property | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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