The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 61
While the moon is waning nightly, May the maiden bloom more brightly, May her freshness never fail!’
Who acts: moon, May freshness · What happens: wane, not fail · To what, where: maiden bloom
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 (moon, May freshness), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 waning | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waning | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waning | aux |
| 5 | waning | wane | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 freshness | advcl |
| 6 | nightly | nightly | ADV | _ | 5 waning | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 May | punct |
| 8 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 waning | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bloom | det |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bloom | amod |
| 11 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waning | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 brightly | advmod |
| 13 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 5 waning | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 waning | punct |
| 15 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 freshness | compound |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 freshness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | freshness | freshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 fail | advmod |
| 19 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 freshness | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 freshness | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 freshness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wane | present · progressive | the moon | the maiden bloom | may | brightly, nightly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not fail | present | light's May freshness not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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