The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 69
‘And if you hear my singing Within your palace, sire, Oh! give, I pray, this happy day, To me my heart’s desire.’
Who acts: you, my, I, heart · What happens: hear, sing, pray, desire · To what, where: give · 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 (you, my, I, heart), 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 | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 singing | nsubj |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hear | ccomp |
| 8 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 singing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sire | punct |
| 12 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 give | discourse |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oh | punct |
| 16 | give | give | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pray | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pray | nsubj |
| 19 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 day | punct |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 day | det |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 me | punct |
| 25 | To | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 desire | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 30 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 me | nsubj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | my | within your palace and sire | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | I | give and this happy day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | desire | my heart | nom desire «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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