The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 21
‘I come from my own country far Into this foreign land, Of all I own I take alone My sweet lute in my hand.
Who acts: I · What happens: come, own, take · To what, where: own country, sweet lute, hand
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 country | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 land | advmod |
| 9 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 land | det |
| 11 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 land | amod |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 14 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 come | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 own | nsubj |
| 17 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 all | acl:relcl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 21 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lute | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lute | amod |
| 23 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | my own country | into this foreign land; of all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location into land=Destination | |||
| 2 | own | present | I | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | take | present | I | My sweet lute | my hand | alone property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lute=Value in hand=Location |
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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