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title: Neither time nor reason seemed to lighten his sorrow, and the sight… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither time nor reason seemed to lighten his sorrow, and the sight of all the familiar faces and things about him only served to remind him of his loss. Who acts: time, sight, godmother. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, with
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 94

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Neither time nor reason seemed to lighten his sorrow, and the sight of all the familiar faces and things about him only served to remind him of his loss.

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**Who acts:** time, sight, godmother · **What happens:** seem, lighten, serve, remind, sorrow, sight · **To what, where:** sorrow, godmother, familiar faces

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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: who acts (time, sight, godmother), 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:pg640:19:94
# text = Neither time nor reason seemed to lighten his sorrow, and the sight of all the familiar faces and things about him only served to remind him of his loss.
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	lighten	lighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | neither time nor reason |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **lighten** | to-infinitive | neither time nor reason *not said here* | godmother's sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient |
| 3 | **serve** | past | the sight of all familiar faces and things about godmother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remind** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the sight of all familiar faces and things about godmother *not said here* |  | godmother |  |  | of godmother's loss | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of loss=Topic |
| 5 | **sorrow** |  | godmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | all familiar faces and things about godmother |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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