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title: After that the bride was led aside by her father, whose duty it was… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After that the bride was led aside by her father, whose duty it was to bestow on her some parting advice as to her conduct in her married life. Who acts: father, blessing, bride. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 13

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After that the bride was led aside by her father, whose duty it was to bestow on her some parting advice as to her conduct in her married life.

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**Who acts:** father, blessing, bride · **What happens:** lead, be, conduct · **To what, where:** bride, parting advice

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, blessing, 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:pg3027:21:13
# text = After that the bride was led aside by her father, whose duty it was to bestow on her some parting advice as to her conduct in her married life.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
7	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · passive | bride's father and bride's father and father's duty's duty | the bride |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | blessing |  |  | bride's parting advice as bride's conduct |  | in bride's married life; bestow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **conduct** |  | bride |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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