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title: ‘Of the sad captive’s longing Within his prison wall, Of hearts that… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Of the sad captive’s longing Within his prison wall, Of hearts that sigh when none are nigh To answer to their call. Who acts: hearts, none, sad captive. 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 25

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‘Of the sad captive’s longing Within his prison wall, Of hearts that sigh when none are nigh To answer to their call.

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**Who acts:** hearts, none, sad captive · **What happens:** sigh, be, answer, long, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hearts, none, sad captive), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:650`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:8:25
# text = ‘Of the sad captive’s longing Within his prison wall, Of hearts that sigh when none are nigh To answer to their call.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sigh	sigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
21	To	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | present | hearts |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | none |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to hearts's call | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to call=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **long** |  | the sad captive |  |  |  |  | within boy's prison wall | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent within=obl |
| 5 | **call** |  | hearts *= heart* |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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