The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 12
“At last may I upon this shore Lighten my sorrow with soft tears.
Who acts: pilot, my · What happens: lighten, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, last
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pilot, my), 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 | _ | 9 Lighten | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Lighten | obl |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 Lighten | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Lighten | nsubj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 I | nmod |
| 9 | Lighten | lighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Lighten | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tears | case |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tears | amod |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Lighten | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lighten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lighten in a quote | may | pilot | my sorrow | last | with soft tears | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient with tear=Instrument | ||
| 2 | sorrow in a quote | my | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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