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title: ‘Full-faced moon with light unshaded, Let my beauty ne’er be faded. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Full-faced moon with light unshaded, Let my beauty ne’er be faded. Who acts: faced moon, beauty ne’er. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 59

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‘Full-faced moon with light unshaded, Let my beauty ne’er be faded.

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**Who acts:** faced moon, beauty ne’er · **What happens:** unshad, let, fade · **To what, where:** light, beauty ne’er

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faced moon, beauty ne’er), 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:pg640:5:59
# text = ‘Full-faced moon with light unshaded, Let my beauty ne’er be faded.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	unshaded	unshad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unshad** | participle |  | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | faced moon with light | my beauty ne’er |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fade** | infinitive · passive | my beauty ne’er *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |

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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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