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title: Like lover’s sighs it still shall rise To greet thee day by day. — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Like lover’s sighs it still shall rise To greet thee day by day. Who acts: lover. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 23

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Like lover’s sighs it still shall rise To greet thee day by day.

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**Who acts:** lover · **What happens:** rise, greet, sigh · **To what, where:** thee

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover), 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:pg641:8:23
# text = Like lover’s sighs it still shall rise To greet thee day by day.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	To	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | shall | lover |  |  |  | still | like lover's sighs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | lover *not said here* | thee |  |  | day |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **sigh** |  | lover |  |  |  |  |  | nom sigh «communication transitive»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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