The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 26
‘My song begs for your pity, And gifts from out your store, And as I play my gentle lay I linger near your door.
Who acts: song, I, My, your · What happens: beg, play, linger, sing, pity · To what, where: gentle lay, door
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 (song, I, My, your), 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 | _ | 4 begs | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 song | nmod:poss |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begs | nsubj |
| 4 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 pity | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pity | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begs | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gifts | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gifts | cc |
| 10 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 begs | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 store | case |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 from | compound:prt |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 store | nmod:poss |
| 14 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gifts | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 linger | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 linger | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 play | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 play | nsubj |
| 19 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 linger | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lay | nmod:poss |
| 21 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lay | amod |
| 22 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 play | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 linger | nsubj |
| 24 | linger | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begs | conj |
| 25 | near | near | ADP | _ | 27 door | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 door | nmod:poss |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 linger | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | My song | for your pity | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for pity=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play | present | I | my gentle lay | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lay=Theme | ||||
| 3 | linger | present | I | your door | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near door=Location | ||||
| 4 | sing | My | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | pity | your | nom pity «feeling 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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