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title: So they married and lived happy ever afterwards," comes from folk-ta… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they married and lived happy ever afterwards," comes from folk-tales, not from novels. " Who acts: Endings. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 41

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So they married and lived happy ever afterwards," comes from folk-tales, not from novels. "

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**Who acts:** Endings · **What happens:** marry, live, come · **To what, where:** folk tales

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Endings), 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:pg14241:34:41
# text = So they married and lived happy ever afterwards," comes from folk-tales, not from novels. "
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	novels	novel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | Endings *= ending* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | Endings *= ending* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afterwards, happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | folk tales and novels |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tale=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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