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title: “At last may I upon this shore Lighten my sorrow with soft tears. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “At last may I upon this shore Lighten my sorrow with soft tears. Who acts: pilot, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 12

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“At last may I upon this shore Lighten my sorrow with soft tears.

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**Who acts:** pilot, my · **What happens:** lighten, sorrow · **To what, where:** sorrow, last

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pilot, my), 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:pg503:7:12
# text = “At last may I upon this shore Lighten my sorrow with soft tears.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	Lighten	lighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lighten** *in a quote* | may | pilot | my sorrow |  | last |  | with soft tears | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient with tear=Instrument |
| 2 | **sorrow** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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