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title: Such was the betrothal, and then came the wedding, with bride's-maid… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Such was the betrothal, and then came the wedding, with bride's-maids and wedding presents, all duly mentioned in the wedding speech. Who acts: Such, wedding, bride's maids. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 85

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Such was the betrothal, and then came the wedding, with bride's-maids and wedding presents, all duly mentioned in the wedding speech.

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**Who acts:** Such, wedding, bride's maids · **What happens:** be, come, mention · **To what, where:** betrothal, all, wedding speech

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, wedding, bride's maids), 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:pg27200:7:85
# text = Such was the betrothal, and then came the wedding, with bride's-maids and wedding presents, all duly mentioned in the wedding speech.
1	Such	Such	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	bride's	bride'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	duly	duly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Such | the betrothal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the wedding | the betrothal *not said here* |  |  | then | with bride's maids and wedding presents | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location betrothal=Theme |
| 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle · passive | bride's maids and wedding presents *not said here* | all |  | the wedding speech |  | duly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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