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title: Time wipes away the greatest griefs, and after two or three years th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Time wipes away the greatest griefs, and after two or three years the King married again. Who acts: Time, King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 70

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Time wipes away the greatest griefs, and after two or three years the King married again.

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**Who acts:** Time, King · **What happens:** wipe away, marry · **To what, where:** greatest griefs

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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, King), 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:pg640:22:70
# text = Time wipes away the greatest griefs, and after two or three years the King married again.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wipes	wipe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	griefs	grief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe away** | present | Time | the greatest griefs |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent grief=Source |
| 2 | **marry** | past | the King |  |  |  | again; year |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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