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title: The wedding of Hans and the princess was celebrated with great festi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wedding of Hans and the princess was celebrated with great festivities which lasted a month. Who acts: great festivities. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 136

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The wedding of Hans and the princess was celebrated with great festivities which lasted a month.

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**Who acts:** great festivities · **What happens:** celebrate, last, wed · **To what, where:** wedding, Hans

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great festivities), 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:pg3027:39:136
# text = The wedding of Hans and the princess was celebrated with great festivities which lasted a month.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | the wedding of Hans and the princess |  |  |  | with great festivities | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **last** | past | great festivities |  |  |  | month |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wed** |  |  | Hans and the princess |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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