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title: Then the wedding was solemnized with young Mr Fox, and there was muc… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the wedding was solemnized with young Mr Fox, and there was much rejoicing and dancing; and if they have not left off, they are dancing still. Who acts: much rejoicing, rejoicing. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 27

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Then the wedding was solemnized with young Mr Fox, and there was much rejoicing and dancing; and if they have not left off, they are dancing still.

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**Who acts:** much rejoicing, rejoicing · **What happens:** solemnize, be, not leave off, dance · **To what, where:** wedding

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much rejoicing, rejoicing), 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:pg2591:55:27
# text = Then the wedding was solemnized with young Mr Fox, and there was much rejoicing and dancing; and if they have not left off, they are dancing still.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	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	solemnized	solemnize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solemnize** | past · passive |  | the wedding |  |  | then | with young Mr Fox | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | much rejoicing and dancing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **leave off** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | rejoicing |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dance** | present · progressive | rejoicing |  |  |  | still |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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