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title: After the ceremonies of the christening were over, all the company r… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: After the ceremonies of the christening were over, all the company returned to the King's palace, where was prepared a great feast for the Fairies. Who acts: ceremonies, company. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tre
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 74

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After the ceremonies of the christening were over, all the company returned to the King's palace, where was prepared a great feast for the Fairies.

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**Who acts:** ceremonies, company · **What happens:** be, return, prepare · **To what, where:** great feast

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, 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 (ceremonies, company), 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:pg29021:8:74
# text = After the ceremonies of the christening were over, all the company returned to the King's palace, where was prepared a great feast for the Fairies.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	christening	christening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ceremonies of the christening |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | all company |  |  |  |  | to the King's palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 3 | **prepare** | past · passive |  | a great feast |  |  |  | for the Fairies | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: feast=Product for fairy=Beneficiary |

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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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