The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 23
Like lover’s sighs it still shall rise To greet thee day by day.
Who acts: lover · What happens: rise, greet, sigh · To what, where: thee
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 (lover), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sighs | case |
| 2 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sighs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 lover | case |
| 4 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rise | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rise | nsubj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 rise | advmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rise | aux |
| 8 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | To | to | PART | _ | 10 greet | mark |
| 10 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rise | advcl |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 greet | obj |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 greet | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 greet | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | shall | lover | still | like lover's sighs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | lover not said here | thee | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 3 | sigh | lover | nom sigh «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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