The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 54

As she walked she wrote on the trees: ‘If ever the Prince, my lover, comes this way, let him know that it is here I dwell, and that I sit daily on the edge of this fountain, mingling my tears with its waters.’

Who acts: joy, Prince, way, I · What happens: walk, write, come, let, know, be · To what, where: trees, Prince, edge, tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, Prince, way, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 comes	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 Prince	mark
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 Prince	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 comes	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lover	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lover	nmod:poss
17	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Prince	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Prince	punct
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	parataxis
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 comes	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 here	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 here	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 here	cop
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 know	ccomp
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 dwell	nsubj
31	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 here	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sit	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sit	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 sit	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 sit	nsubj
36	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 comes	conj
37	daily	daily	ADV	_	36 sit	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 edge	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 edge	det
40	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sit	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 fountain	case
42	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 fountain	det
43	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 edge	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 mingling	punct
45	mingling	mingle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 sit	advcl
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 tears	nmod:poss
47	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 mingling	obj
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 waters	case
49	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 waters	nmod:poss
50	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 mingling	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	joy				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	past	joy		the trees		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on tree=Destination
3	come	present	the Prince and my lover				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let	infinitive	the Prince and my lover not said here	Prince			tree rules
5	know	infinitive	Prince not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	way			here property	tree rules
7	dwell	present	I				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sit	present	I		the edge of this fountain	daily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
9	mingle	gerund	I not said here	my tears		with fountain's waters	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tear=Patient with water=Co-Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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