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title: After a year’s time a son was born, worthy in every way of such dist… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After a year’s time a son was born, worthy in every way of such distinguished parents, and much admired by the whole Court. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 87

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After a year’s time a son was born, worthy in every way of such distinguished parents, and much admired by the whole Court.

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**What happens:** bear, admire · **To what, where:** son, way

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:19:87
# text = After a year’s time a son was born, worthy in every way of such distinguished parents, and much admired by the whole Court.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | a son |  | every way of such distinguished parents | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **admire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the whole Court | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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