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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 52

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The wedding took place with great splendour, and for a whole week the town was hung with coloured lamps, and tables were spread in the hall of the castle for all who chose to come and eat.

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**Who acts:** wedding, castle · **What happens:** take, hang, spread, choose, come, eat · **To what, where:** place, town, tables, hall

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, castle), 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:pg2435:9:52
# text = The wedding took place with great splendour, and for a whole week the town was hung with coloured lamps, and tables were spread in the hall of the castle for all who chose to come and eat.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nmod	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the wedding | place |  |  |  | with great splendour | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | past · passive |  | the town |  |  | week | with coloured lamps | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with lamp=Instrument |
| 3 | **spread** | past · passive |  | tables |  | the hall of the castle for all |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in hall=Destination |
| 4 | **choose** | past | the castle for all |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | the castle for all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive | the castle for all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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 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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