--- title: Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" (public domain) says "He clasps the crag… — Poetry: simile, metaphor, personification, allit… · tree and pragmatics description: Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" (public domain) says "He clasps the crag with crooked hands": alliteration of the hard c sound, and personification, since an eagle has talons, not hands. Who acts: poem, eagle, hard c sound. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poem, eagle, hard c sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:11 # text = Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" (public domain) says "He clasps the crag with crooked hands": alliteration of the hard c sound, and personification, since an eagle has talons, not hands. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Tennyson Tennyson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 domain domain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 clasps clasp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 crag crag NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 crooked crooked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 22 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 personification personification NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 since since SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 talons talon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tennyson's poem | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **clasp** *in a quote* | present | poem | the crag | | | | with crooked hands; alliteration of the hard c sound and personification *obl* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crag=Patient with hand=Instrument | | 3 | **have** | present | a eagle | talons and hands | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talon=Patient | | 4 | **alliterate** | | the hard c sound | | | | | | nom alliteration «communication intransitive»: of=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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:046-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration.lesson:11`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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