The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 15
“And thou, O raging, stormy Sea, Stirred by wild winds, from depth to height, Thou hold’st my loved one far from me, And I am captive to thy might.
Who acts: pilot · What happens: rage, stir, love, be · To what, where: stormy Sea, one
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), 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 | _ | 3 thou | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thou | cc |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 raging | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 raging | mark |
| 6 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thou | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sea | punct |
| 8 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Sea | amod |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 raging | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Stirred | punct |
| 11 | Stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Sea | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 winds | case |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 winds | amod |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Stirred | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 depth | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 depth | case |
| 17 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 winds | appos |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 height | case |
| 19 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 depth | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hold’st | punct |
| 21 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 hold’st | nsubj |
| 22 | hold’st | hold' | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 raging | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 loved | nmod:poss |
| 24 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hold’st | parataxis |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 loved | obj |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 me | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 captive | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 captive | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 captive | nsubj |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 captive | cop |
| 33 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hold’st | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 might | case |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 might | nmod:poss |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 captive | aux |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thou | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage in a quote | gerund | stormy Sea | hold' property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stir in a quote | participle | stormy Sea not said here | by wild winds | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location | ||||
| 3 | love in a quote | participle | one | from pilot | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | might · present | pilot | captive 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 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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