--- title: “When autumn chills destroy the honeyed flowers, The bees must do wi… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “When autumn chills destroy the honeyed flowers, The bees must do without their favourite food; So when my passion cools, and dies my love, You should submit to this my changéd mood.” Who acts: autumn chills, bees, passion, You. 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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 (autumn chills, bees, passion, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:26:4 # text = “When autumn chills destroy the honeyed flowers, The bees must do without their favourite food; So when my passion cools, and dies my love, You should submit to this my changéd mood.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 chills chill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 destroy destroy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 honeyed honey VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 parataxis _ _ 14 without without ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 So so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 when when SCONJ WRB _ 23 mark _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 passion passion NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 30 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 submit submit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nsubj _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 changéd changéd NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **destroy** *in a quote* | present | autumn chills | the honeyed flowers | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 2 | **honey** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | must | the bees | | | | | without bees's favourite food | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cool** *in a quote* | present | my passion | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **die** *in a quote* | present | my passion *not said here* | my love | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **submit** *in a quote* | should | You | | | | | to my changéd mood this | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mood=Theme | | 7 | **love** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/26/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/26/5/) - ↑ back to [Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/26/)