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title: Everything went off excellently well, and they made merry till the t… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything went off excellently well, and they made merry till the time came when bride and bridegroom were to sit down together on the bridal bench. Who acts: Everything, soldiers, time, bride. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 25

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Everything went off excellently well, and they made merry till the time came when bride and bridegroom were to sit down together on the bridal bench.

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**Who acts:** Everything, soldiers, time, bride · **What happens:** go off, make, come, sit down · **To what, where:** bridal bench

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, soldiers, time, bride), 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:pg29672:17:25
# text = Everything went off excellently well, and they made merry till the time came when bride and bridegroom were to sit down together on the bridal bench.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	excellently	excellently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	merry	merry	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
16	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | excellently *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **come** | past | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | bride and bridegroom |  |  | the bridal bench |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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