Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 4

"A wild bird here and there still sings to cheer His mate that nestles in the thicket near; But ah! no voice of love falls on my ear: I am alone.

Who acts: wild bird, mate, I · What happens: sing, cheer, nestle, be · To what, where: mate, thicket

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild bird, mate, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sings	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sings	nsubj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bird	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 there	cc
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 here	conj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 sings	advmod
9	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cheer	mark
11	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sings	xcomp
12	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mate	nmod:poss
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cheer	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 nestles	nsubj
15	nestles	nestle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mate	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 thicket	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thicket	det
18	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nestles	obl
19	near	near	ADV	_	15 nestles	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 alone	punct
21	But	but	CCONJ	_	35 alone	cc
22	ah	ah	INTJ	_	35 alone	discourse
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 voice	punct
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 voice	det
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ah	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 falls	case
27	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falls	compound
28	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 voice	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 ear	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ear	nmod:poss
31	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falls	nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 alone	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 alone	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 alone	cop
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 sings	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	present	a wild bird			still		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cheer in a quote	to-infinitive	a wild bird not said here	bird's mate				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mate=Experiencer
3	nestle in a quote	present	bird's mate		the thicket		near property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in thicket=Location
4	is in a quote	present	I				alone property	tree rules

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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 4