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title: Time dragged heavily till the time of the full moon, but it passed a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Time dragged heavily till the time of the full moon, but it passed at last, and as soon as it rose the young wife went to the pond, combed her black hair with a golden comb, and when she had finished, placed the comb on the bank; then she watched the water impatiently. Who acts: moon, young wife, wi
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 13

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Time dragged heavily till the time of the full moon, but it passed at last, and as soon as it rose the young wife went to the pond, combed her black hair with a golden comb, and when she had finished, placed the comb on the bank; then she watched the water impatiently.

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**Who acts:** moon, young wife, wife · **What happens:** drag, pass, rise, go, comb, finish · **To what, where:** Time, last, pond, black hair, comb, bank

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, young wife, wife), 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:pg640:21:13
# text = Time dragged heavily till the time of the full moon, but it passed at last, and as soon as it rose the young wife went to the pond, combed her black hair with a golden comb, and when she had finished, placed the comb on the bank; then she watched the water impatiently.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
2	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	till	till	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	combed	comb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	advcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
54	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | participle |  | Time *not said here* |  |  | time | heavily *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | past | moon |  |  | last | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 3 | **rise** | past | moon |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | the young wife |  |  | the pond |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **comb** | past | moon *not said here* | wife's black hair |  |  |  | with a golden comb | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 6 | **finish** | past · perfect | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **place** | participle | wife *not said here* | the comb |  | the bank |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme on bank=Destination |
| 8 | **watch** | past | wife | the water |  |  | then | impatiently *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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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