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title: The wedding was celebrated without delay, and succeeding years dimin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wedding was celebrated without delay, and succeeding years diminished neither the virtues, beauty, nor the mutual affection of King Rainbow and his Queen, Fairer-than-a-Fairy. Who acts: succeeding years. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with i
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 40

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The wedding was celebrated without delay, and succeeding years diminished neither the virtues, beauty, nor the mutual affection of King Rainbow and his Queen, Fairer-than-a-Fairy.

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**Who acts:** succeeding years · **What happens:** celebrate, succeed, diminish · **To what, where:** wedding, virtues

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (succeeding years), 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:pg640:24:40
# text = The wedding was celebrated without delay, and succeeding years diminished neither the virtues, beauty, nor the mutual affection of King Rainbow and his Queen, Fairer-than-a-Fairy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	succeeding	succeed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	diminished	diminish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc:preconj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Rainbow	Rainbow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | the wedding |  |  |  | without delay | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **succeed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **diminish** | past | succeeding years | the virtues and beauty |  |  |  | the mutual affection of Rainbow  King and rainbow's Queen and Fairer *obl* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer virtue=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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