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title: ‘My song begs for your pity, And gifts from out your store, And as I… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My song begs for your pity, And gifts from out your store, And as I play my gentle lay I linger near your door. Who acts: song, I, My, your. 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 68

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‘My song begs for your pity, And gifts from out your store, And as I play my gentle lay I linger near your door.

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**Who acts:** song, I, My, your · **What happens:** beg, play, linger, sing, pity · **To what, where:** gentle lay, door

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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 (song, I, My, your), 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:pg641:8:68
# text = ‘My song begs for your pity, And gifts from out your store, And as I play my gentle lay I linger near your door.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begs	beg	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	linger	linger	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | My song |  |  |  |  | for your pity | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for pity=Topic |
| 2 | **play** | present | I | my gentle lay |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lay=Theme |
| 3 | **linger** | present | I |  |  | your door |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near door=Location |
| 4 | **sing** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **pity** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pity «feeling 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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