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title: And a marriage procession returned to the castle, such as no king ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And a marriage procession returned to the castle, such as no king had ever before seen. Who acts: marriage procession, king. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 45

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And a marriage procession returned to the castle, such as no king had ever before seen.

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**Who acts:** marriage procession, king · **What happens:** return, see · **To what, where:** castle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage procession, 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:pg27200:210:45
# text = And a marriage procession returned to the castle, such as no king had ever before seen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | a marriage procession |  |  |  |  | to the castle *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | no king | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |

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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:** «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.

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