The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 12
Oh! my Princess, birds above Echo back our songs of love, As through this enchanted land Blithe we wander, hand in hand.
Who acts: we, love · What happens: enchant, wander, hand, sing · To what, where: enchanted land, hand
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, love), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 Princess | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 birds | punct |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Princess | nmod |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 8 Echo | case |
| 8 | Echo | Echo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 birds | nmod |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 songs | advmod |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 songs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 birds | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 songs | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wander | punct |
| 15 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 wander | mark |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 land | det |
| 18 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 land | amod |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wander | obl |
| 20 | Blithe | Blithe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 land | appos |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wander | nsubj |
| 22 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 songs | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hand | punct |
| 24 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wander | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hand | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | wander | present | we | this enchanted land | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hand | infinitive | we not said here | hand | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sing | love | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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