The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 25
‘Of the sad captive’s longing Within his prison wall, Of hearts that sigh when none are nigh To answer to their call.
Who acts: hearts, none, sad captive · What happens: sigh, be, answer, long, call · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hearts, none, sad captive), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:650): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 longing | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 longing | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captive | det |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 captive | amod |
| 5 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 longing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 captive | case |
| 7 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wall | nmod:poss |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | compound |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 longing | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hearts | punct |
| 13 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 longing | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sigh | nsubj |
| 16 | sigh | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hearts | acl:relcl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 nigh | advmod |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 nigh | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 nigh | cop |
| 20 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sigh | advcl |
| 21 | To | to | PART | _ | 22 answer | mark |
| 22 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nigh | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 call | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 call | nmod:poss |
| 25 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 answer | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 longing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | present | hearts | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | none | nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | none not said here | to hearts's call | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to call=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | long | the sad captive | within boy's prison wall | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent within=obl | |||||
| 5 | call | hearts = heart | nom call «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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