The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 123

We have travelled a long way, we have spoken in the rustle of the wind, have whispered in the wood, we have sung in the waters, but now we wish to tell you a story which you know without knowing it, in the speech of men.’

Who acts: We, you, wind · What happens: travell, speak, whisper, sing, wish, tell · To what, where: long way, rustle, wood, waters, story, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you, wind), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 travelled	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	aux
3	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travelled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 spoken	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spoken	aux
10	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 travelled	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 rustle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rustle	det
13	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoken	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wind	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rustle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whispered	punct
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 whispered	aux
19	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 travelled	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 whispered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sung	punct
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sung	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sung	aux
26	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 whispered	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 waters	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 waters	det
29	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sung	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wish	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 wish	cc
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 wish	advmod
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 wish	nsubj
34	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 tell	mark
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wish	xcomp
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 tell	iobj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 story	det
39	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tell	obj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 know	obj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 know	nsubj
42	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 story	acl:relcl
43	without	without	SCONJ	_	44 knowing	mark
44	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 know	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 knowing	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 speech	punct
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 speech	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 speech	det
49	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tell	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 men	case
51	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 speech	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	travell	present · perfect	We	a long way				tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present · perfect	we			the rustle of the wind		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	whisper speech: assert	present · perfect				the wood		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
4	sing speech: express	present · perfect	we			the waters		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
5	wish	present	we				now	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	a story	you	the speech of men		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
7	know	present	you	a story				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
8	know	gerund	you not said here	story				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
9	rustle		the wind					nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent
10	speak			men				nom speech «communication transitive»: of=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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