The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 59
‘Full-faced moon with light unshaded, Let my beauty ne’er be faded.
Who acts: faced moon, beauty ne’er · What happens: unshad, let, fade · To what, where: light, beauty ne’er
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faced moon, beauty ne’er), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 moon | punct |
| 2 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 faced | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Full | punct |
| 4 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moon | amod |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Let | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 light | case |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moon | nmod |
| 8 | unshaded | unshad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 light | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moon | punct |
| 10 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ne’er | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ne’er | compound |
| 13 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Let | obj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 faded | aux:pass |
| 15 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Let | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unshad | participle | light not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | faced moon with light | my beauty ne’er | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fade | infinitive · passive | my beauty ne’er not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
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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