--- title: The day after her marriage the bride sent a messenger, bearing hands… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The day after her marriage the bride sent a messenger, bearing handsome presents to her father, and telling him of the good fortune which had befallen her. Who acts: bride, feast. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/) / 83 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 83 The day after her marriage the bride sent a messenger, bearing handsome presents to her father, and telling him of the good fortune which had befallen her. **Who acts:** bride, feast · **What happens:** send, bear, tell, befall, marry · **To what, where:** messenger, handsome presents, prince, good fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, feast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:12:83 # text = The day after her marriage the bride sent a messenger, bearing handsome presents to her father, and telling him of the good fortune which had befallen her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bearing bear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 befallen befall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | the bride | a messenger | | | day | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | | 2 | **bear** | gerund | the bride *not said here* | handsome presents | | | | to feast's father | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the bride *not said here* | | prince | | | of the good fortune | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **befall** | past · perfect · passive | | the good fortune | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **marry** | | feast | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/84/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/)