The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 67
‘I sing the captive’s longing Within his prison wall, Of hearts that sigh when none are nigh To answer to their call.
Who acts: I, captive, hearts, none, captives · What happens: sing, long, sigh, be, answer, 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 (I, captive, hearts, none), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captive | det |
| 5 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 longing | nsubj |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 longing | aux |
| 7 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sing | ccomp |
| 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 | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hearts | punct |
| 13 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sing | obl |
| 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 | SCONJ | _ | 20 nigh | mark |
| 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 | ccomp |
| 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 | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | I | of hearts | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | long | present · progressive | the captive | within sire's prison wall | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | sigh | present | hearts | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | none | nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | none not said here | to captives's call | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to call=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | call | captives = captive | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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