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title: The marriage took place the following day, and Muffette and her husb… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The marriage took place the following day, and Muffette and her husband lived happy for ever after. Who acts: marriage, Muffette. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 74

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The marriage took place the following day, and Muffette and her husband lived happy for ever after.

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**Who acts:** marriage, Muffette · **What happens:** take, follow, live · **To what, where:** place

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, Muffette), 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:pg3027:29:74
# text = The marriage took place the following day, and Muffette and her husband lived happy for ever after.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Muffette	Muffette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	obl	_	_
18	after	after	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the marriage | place |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | Muffette and Muffette's husband |  |  |  |  | after, happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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