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title: While the moon is waning nightly, May the maiden bloom more brightly… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While the moon is waning nightly, May the maiden bloom more brightly, May her freshness never fail!’ Who acts: moon, May freshness. 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 61

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While the moon is waning nightly, May the maiden bloom more brightly, May her freshness never fail!’

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**Who acts:** moon, May freshness · **What happens:** wane, not fail · **To what, where:** maiden bloom

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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 (moon, May freshness), 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:pg640:5:61
# text = While the moon is waning nightly, May the maiden bloom more brightly, May her freshness never fail!’
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	waning	wane	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
6	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	freshness	freshness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wane** | present · progressive | the moon | the maiden bloom |  |  | may | brightly, nightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fail** | present | light's May freshness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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