--- title: And in three days the wedding was celebrated, and the wedding feast… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And in three days the wedding was celebrated, and the wedding feast was held, and everyone who saw the bride declared that if anybody wanted a perfect wife they must go to seek her on top of a tree. Who acts: everyone, anybody, pearls. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, anybody, pearls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:10:75 # text = And in three days the wedding was celebrated, and the wedding feast was held, and everyone who saw the bride declared that if anybody wanted a perfect wife they must go to seek her on top of a tree. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 23 nsubj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ _ 27 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **celebrate** | past · passive | | the wedding | | | day | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | past · passive | | the wedding feast | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | | the bride | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | | 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | everyone | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | anybody | a perfect wife | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme | | 6 | **go** | must | pearls *= pearl* | a perfect wife *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **seek** | to-infinitive | pearls *= pearl* *not said here* | wife | | top of a tree | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme on top=Location | 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. **Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/10/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/10/76/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/10/)