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title: The celebrations of this illustrious marriage lasted nearly three mo… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: The celebrations of this illustrious marriage lasted nearly three months, but the love of the two young people would have endured for more than a hundred years, had they out-lived that age, so great was their affection for one another. Who acts: celebrations. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charle
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 204

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The celebrations of this illustrious marriage lasted nearly three months, but the love of the two young people would have endured for more than a hundred years, had they out-lived that age, so great was their affection for one another.

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**Who acts:** celebrations · **What happens:** last, endure, live, be, celebrate, love · **To what, where:** illustrious marriage, love, age, great affection, two young people

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (celebrations), 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:pg29021:15:204
# text = The celebrations of this illustrious marriage lasted nearly three months, but the love of the two young people would have endured for more than a hundred years, had they out-lived that age, so great was their affection for one another.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	lasted	last	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	endured	endure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	27	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	appos	_	_
45	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | participle |  | this illustrious marriage *not said here* |  |  | month |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **endure** | would · perfect · passive | the celebrations of this illustrious marriage *not said here* | the love of the two young people |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance |
| 3 | **live** | past · perfect | the celebrations of this illustrious marriage | that age |  |  |  | out *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme age=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | celebrations's great affection |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **celebrate** |  |  | this illustrious marriage |  |  |  |  | nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **love** |  |  | the two young people |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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