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title: “O! lovely Nymphs, from ocean caves, Who know how sweet true love ma… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “O! lovely Nymphs, from ocean caves, Who know how sweet true love may be, Come up and calm the furious waves And set a desperate lover free!” Who acts: lovely Nymphs, sweet true love. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 19

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“O! lovely Nymphs, from ocean caves, Who know how sweet true love may be, Come up and calm the furious waves And set a desperate lover free!”

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**Who acts:** lovely Nymphs, sweet true love · **What happens:** know, come up, calm, set · **To what, where:** furious waves, desperate lover · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lovely Nymphs, sweet true love), 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:pg503:7:19
# text = “O! lovely Nymphs, from ocean caves, Who know how sweet true love may be, Come up and calm the furious waves And set a desperate lover free!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | lovely Nymphs and ocean caves |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come up** *in a quote* | may | sweet true love |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **calm** *in a quote* | infinitive | sweet true love *not said here* | the furious waves |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wave=Experiencer |
| 4 | **set** *in a quote* | past | lovely Nymphs and ocean caves *not said here* | a desperate lover |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient lover=Result |

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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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