The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 79

Beautiful shore, with thy spreading strand, Thy crystal water, and diamond sand; Never would I have parted from thee, But for the sake of my fair ladie.

Who acts: I · What happens: spread, not part

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shore	amod
2	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strand	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 strand	case
5	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 strand	nmod:poss
6	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 strand	amod
7	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shore	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 water	punct
9	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 water	nmod:poss
10	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shore	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sand	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sand	cc
14	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sand	amod
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shore	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 parted	punct
17	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 parted	advmod
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 parted	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 parted	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 parted	aux
21	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 shore	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 thee	case
23	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 parted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sake	punct
25	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 sake	cc
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 sake	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sake	det
28	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 parted	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 ladie	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ladie	nmod:poss
31	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ladie	amod
32	ladie	ladie	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sake	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not part	would · perfect	I					for the sake of my fair ladie; from thee	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from thou=Co-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 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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