The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 40
The wedding was celebrated without delay, and succeeding years diminished neither the virtues, beauty, nor the mutual affection of King Rainbow and his Queen, Fairer-than-a-Fairy.
Who acts: succeeding years · What happens: celebrate, succeed, diminish · To what, where: wedding, virtues
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (succeeding years), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 4 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 delay | case |
| 6 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 celebrated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 diminished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 diminished | cc |
| 9 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 diminished | nsubj |
| 11 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 celebrated | conj |
| 12 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 virtues | cc:preconj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 virtues | det |
| 14 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 diminished | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beauty | punct |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 virtues | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 affection | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 affection | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 affection | det |
| 20 | mutual | mutual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 affection | amod |
| 21 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 diminished | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Rainbow | case |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rainbow | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Rainbow | Rainbow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 affection | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Queen | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rainbow | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Fairer | punct |
| 29 | Fairer | Fairer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rainbow | conj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Fairy | punct |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 Fairy | case |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 than | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 Fairy | det |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 a | punct |
| 35 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Fairer | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | without delay | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | succeed | gerund | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | diminish | past | succeeding years | the virtues and beauty | the mutual affection of Rainbow King and rainbow's Queen and Fairer obl | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer virtue=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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