--- title: When I hear his happy voice as I travel along I shall think of you a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When I hear his happy voice as I travel along I shall think of you and thank you.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/8/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Lute Player](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/8/) / 41 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 41 When I hear his happy voice as I travel along I shall think of you and thank you.’ **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** hear, travel, think, thank · **To what, where:** happy voice, you 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:8:41 # text = When I hear his happy voice as I travel along I shall think of you and thank you.’ 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 along along ADP IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | I | sire's happy voice | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **travel** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | shall | I | | | | | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | I *not said here* | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/8/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/8/42/) - ↑ back to [The Lute Player](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/8/)