The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 70
Time wipes away the greatest griefs, and after two or three years the King married again.
Who acts: Time, King · What happens: wipe away, marry · To what, where: greatest griefs
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, King), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wipes | nsubj |
| 2 | wipes | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 wipes | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 griefs | det |
| 5 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 griefs | amod |
| 6 | griefs | grief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wipes | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 married | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 married | cc |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 three | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 two | conj |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 married | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 married | nsubj |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wipes | parataxis |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 married | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wipes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe away | present | Time | the greatest griefs | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent grief=Source | |||
| 2 | marry | past | the King | again; year | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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