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title: He married a wife, and they lived in great peace and happiness, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He married a wife, and they lived in great peace and happiness, and he was acknowledged to be the richest man, not only of his native village, but of all the country-side. Who acts: shepherd, gods. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its depend
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 40

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He married a wife, and they lived in great peace and happiness, and he was acknowledged to be the richest man, not only of his native village, but of all the country-side.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, gods · **What happens:** marry, live, acknowledge, be · **To what, where:** wife, great peace, shepherd, richest man

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, gods), 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:pg2435:6:40
# text = He married a wife, and they lived in great peace and happiness, and he was acknowledged to be the richest man, not only of his native village, but of all the country-side.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | shepherd | a wife |  |  |  | of all country side | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | gods *= god* |  |  | great peace and happiness |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 3 | **acknowledge** | past · passive |  | shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the richest man and shepherd's native village |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 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.

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