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title: Some time after that, there was a fine wedding at the finest church… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time after that, there was a fine wedding at the finest church in London; and Miss Alice became the wife of Mr. Richard Whittington. Who acts: fine wedding, Miss. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 31

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Some time after that, there was a fine wedding at the finest church in London; and Miss Alice became the wife of Mr. Richard Whittington.

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**Who acts:** fine wedding, Miss · **What happens:** be, become · **To what, where:** wife

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine wedding, Miss), 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:pg18442:53:31
# text = Some time after that, there was a fine wedding at the finest church in London; and Miss Alice became the wife of Mr. Richard Whittington.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a fine wedding at the finest church in London |  |  | there | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Miss | the wife of Richard  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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