--- title: "Oh! son who ne'er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Oh! son who ne'er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!" Who acts: son, thy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, thy), 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:pg7128:20:106 # text = "Oh! son who ne'er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 6 ne'er ne'er ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 gladdened gladden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 17 arise arise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Dim dim VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 darken darken VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 For for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 30 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gladden** *in a quote* | participle | | horses *= horse* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus my=Experiencer | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | son | the cloud | | | | ne'er gladdened eyes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | thy | the cloud *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme | | 4 | **arise** *in a quote* | present | son | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dim** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the sunlight | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | | 6 | **darken** *in a quote* | present | | | | | day | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | son | | | | | for the mother; away *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | as dust | tree rules | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/107/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/)