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title: She sung this verse to him, sighing and sobbing, and kept singing it… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She sung this verse to him, sighing and sobbing, and kept singing it the night long, and it was all in vain: Who acts: silk, verse. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 94

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She sung this verse to him, sighing and sobbing, and kept singing it the night long, and it was all in vain:

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**Who acts:** silk, verse · **What happens:** sing, sigh, sob, keep, be · **To what, where:** verse, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silk, verse), 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:pg3454:13:94
# text = She sung this verse to him, sighing and sobbing, and kept singing it the night long, and it was all in vain:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sung	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | silk | this verse | prince |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent verse=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **sigh** | gerund | silk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sob** | gerund | silk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | past | silk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | silk *not said here* | verse |  |  | night | long *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | verse |  |  |  |  | all, vain *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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