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title: ‘I sing of blooming flowers Made sweet by sun and rain; Of all the b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I sing of blooming flowers Made sweet by sun and rain; Of all the bliss of love’s first kiss, And parting’s cruel pain. Who acts: I, love, parting. 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 24

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‘I sing of blooming flowers Made sweet by sun and rain; Of all the bliss of love’s first kiss, And parting’s cruel pain.

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**Who acts:** I, love, parting · **What happens:** sing, bloom, make, kiss, pain · **To what, where:** blooming flowers

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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 (I, love, parting), 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:pg641:8:24
# text = ‘I sing of blooming flowers Made sweet by sun and rain; Of all the bliss of love’s first kiss, And parting’s cruel pain.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | I |  |  |  |  | of blooming flowers | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | blooming flowers *not said here* |  |  |  | by sun and rain; sweet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **kiss** |  | love |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **pain** |  | parting |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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