The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 73

There is none may taste of the golden fruit Till the golden new time come Many a tree shall spring from shoot, Many a blossom be withered at root, Many a song be dumb; Broken and still shall be many a lute Or ever the new times come!

Who acts: none, Many, lute, new times · What happens: be, come, spring, wither, break · To what, where: shoot, Many, root

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, Many, lute, new times), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taste	cop
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 taste	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 taste	aux
5	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 fruit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fruit	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fruit	amod
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	obl
10	Till	till	ADP	_	14 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	obl
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taste	conj
16	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spring	nsubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spring	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 spring	aux
20	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 shoot	case
22	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spring	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 withered	punct
24	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 withered	nsubj:pass
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 blossom	det
26	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 withered	nsubj:pass
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 withered	aux:pass
28	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 spring	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 root	case
30	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 withered	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dumb	punct
32	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dumb	nsubj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 song	det
34	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dumb	nsubj
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 dumb	cop
36	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 withered	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 Broken	punct
38	Broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 taste	parataxis
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 many	cc
40	still	still	ADV	_	43 many	advmod
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 many	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 many	cop
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Broken	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 lute	det
45	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 many	nsubj
46	Or	or	CCONJ	_	51 come	cc
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	51 come	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 times	det
49	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 times	amod
50	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 come	nsubj
51	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 many	conj
52	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 taste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may · present	none			time	of the golden fruit; taste property	tree rules
2	come	infinitive	none not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spring	shall	Many		shoot			tree rules
4	wither	infinitive · passive		Many	root			tree rules
5	is	infinitive	Many				dumb property	tree rules
6	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	is	shall	a lute			still	many property	tree rules
8	come	present	the new times			ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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