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title: "Cheerless is the evening grey When Causleen hath died away, But eve… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Cheerless is the evening grey When Causleen hath died away, But ever bright and ever fair Are they who breathe this evening air, And lean upon the self-bored stone Unseen by all but me alone." Who acts: Cheerless, Causleen, feet. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More Engli
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 42

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"Cheerless is the evening grey When Causleen hath died away, But ever bright and ever fair Are they who breathe this evening air, And lean upon the self-bored stone Unseen by all but me alone."

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**Who acts:** Cheerless, Causleen, feet · **What happens:** be, have, die away, lean · **To what, where:** evening grey, bored stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cheerless, Causleen, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:31:42
# text = "Cheerless is the evening grey When Causleen hath died away, But ever bright and ever fair Are they who breathe this evening air, And lean upon the self-bored stone Unseen by all but me alone."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cheerless	Cheerless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Causleen	Causleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	conj	_	_
40	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Cheerless | the evening grey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Causleen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die away** *in a quote* | past | Causleen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Cheerless *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | breathe *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **lean** *in a quote* | infinitive | feet *= foot* *not said here* |  |  | the bored stone |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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