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title: The poor young couple were in despair, and only parted with the last… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor young couple were in despair, and only parted with the last ray of sunshine, and in hopes of meeting next morning. Who acts: poor young couple, meeting. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 82

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The poor young couple were in despair, and only parted with the last ray of sunshine, and in hopes of meeting next morning.

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**Who acts:** poor young couple, meeting · **What happens:** be, part, ray, hope · **To what, where:** despair, sunshine

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor young couple, meeting), 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:pg640:23:82
# text = The poor young couple were in despair, and only parted with the last ray of sunshine, and in hopes of meeting next morning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the poor young couple |  |  | despair and hopes of meeting  next morning |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **part** | participle |  | despair and hopes of meeting  next morning *not said here* |  |  |  | with the last ray of sunshine | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with ray=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **ray** |  |  | sunshine |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **hope** |  | meeting  next morning |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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