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title: Thereupon the wedding was celebrated, and the lion was again taken i… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon the wedding was celebrated, and the lion was again taken into favour, because, after all, he had told the truth. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 47

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Thereupon the wedding was celebrated, and the lion was again taken into favour, because, after all, he had told the truth.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** celebrate, take, tell · **To what, where:** wedding, lion, favour, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg2591:50:47
# text = Thereupon the wedding was celebrated, and the lion was again taken into favour, because, after all, he had told the truth.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | the wedding |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | the lion |  | favour | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into favour=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | king | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |

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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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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