--- title: The marriage was still to take place, and the archbishop himself had… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The marriage was still to take place, and the archbishop himself had to place the crown on the bride's head; in his wicked spite, he pressed the narrow circlet so tightly on her forehead that it caused her pain. Who acts: marriage, archbishop, head. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, archbishop, head), 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:pg27200:209:109 # text = The marriage was still to take place, and the archbishop himself had to place the crown on the bride's head; in his wicked spite, he pressed the narrow circlet so tightly on her forehead that it caused her pain. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 archbishop archbishop NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 circlet circlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the marriage | | | | still | take *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | the archbishop archbishop | place | | the bride's head | | | tree rules | | 3 | **press** | past | archbishop | the narrow circlet | | archbishop's wicked spite | | on head's forehead | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circlet=Theme | | 4 | **cause** | past | marriage | head's pain | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient | | 5 | **spite** | | archbishop | | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **pain** | | head | | | | | | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/110/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/)