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title: A marriage was being celebrated, in which the beautiful Helga, glitt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A marriage was being celebrated, in which the beautiful Helga, glittering in silk and jewels, was the bride, and the bridegroom the young Arab prince. Who acts: beautiful Helga. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 57

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A marriage was being celebrated, in which the beautiful Helga, glittering in silk and jewels, was the bride, and the bridegroom the young Arab prince.

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**Who acts:** beautiful Helga · **What happens:** celebrate, glitter, be · **To what, where:** marriage, silk, bride

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Helga), 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:pg27200:88:57
# text = A marriage was being celebrated, in which the beautiful Helga, glittering in silk and jewels, was the bride, and the bridegroom the young Arab prince.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	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 |  | a marriage |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund | the beautiful Helga *not said here* |  |  | silk and jewels |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silk=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the beautiful Helga | the bride and the bridegroom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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