The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 19
“O! lovely Nymphs, from ocean caves, Who know how sweet true love may be, Come up and calm the furious waves And set a desperate lover free!”
Who acts: lovely Nymphs, sweet true love · What happens: know, come up, calm, set · To what, where: furious waves, desperate lover · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lovely Nymphs, sweet true 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nymphs | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 Nymphs | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 O | punct |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Nymphs | amod |
| 5 | Nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 know | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caves | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 caves | case |
| 8 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caves | compound |
| 9 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Nymphs | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 sweet | advmod |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 love | amod |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 love | amod |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Come | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 Come | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Come | aux |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Come | punct |
| 20 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 Come | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 calm | cc |
| 23 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Come | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 waves | det |
| 25 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 waves | amod |
| 26 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 calm | obj |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lover | det |
| 30 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lover | amod |
| 31 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obj |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 set | xcomp |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | lovely Nymphs and ocean caves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come up in a quote | may | sweet true love | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | calm in a quote | infinitive | sweet true love not said here | the furious waves | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wave=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | set in a quote | past | lovely Nymphs and ocean caves not said here | a desperate lover | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lover=Result |
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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