The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 24
‘I sing of blooming flowers Made sweet by sun and rain; Of all the bliss of love’s first kiss, And parting’s cruel pain.
Who acts: I, love, parting · What happens: sing, bloom, make, kiss, pain · To what, where: blooming flowers
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, love, parting), 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 sing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 flowers | case |
| 5 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 flowers | amod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sing | obl |
| 7 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flowers | acl |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Made | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rain | cc |
| 12 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sun | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 bliss | punct |
| 14 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bliss | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 bliss | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bliss | det |
| 17 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kiss | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 love | case |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 kiss | amod |
| 22 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bliss | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pain | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pain | cc |
| 25 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pain | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 parting | case |
| 27 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pain | amod |
| 28 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bliss | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | I | of blooming flowers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | blooming flowers not said here | by sun and rain; sweet property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | kiss | love | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | pain | parting | nom pain «state 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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