--- title: Soon after, the two elder couples went to their own courts, but the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon after, the two elder couples went to their own courts, but the youngest pair stayed with the old king, and they were as happy as the happiest married couple you ever heard of in a story. Who acts: two elder couples, youngest pair, couples, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/3/) [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 Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/) / 3 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 3 Soon after, the two elder couples went to their own courts, but the youngest pair stayed with the old king, and they were as happy as the happiest married couple you ever heard of in a story. **Who acts:** two elder couples, youngest pair, couples, you · **What happens:** go, stay, be, marry, hear · **To what, where:** own courts, happiest married couple, story This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (two elder couples, youngest pair, couples, you), 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:pg3454:12:3 # text = Soon after, the two elder couples went to their own courts, but the youngest pair stayed with the old king, and they were as happy as the happiest married couple you ever heard of in a story. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 couples couple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 as as ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 happiest happy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 32 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 36 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 36 obl _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the two elder couples | | | couples's own courts | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **stay** | past | the youngest pair | | | | | with the old king | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with king=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | couples *= couple* | | | | | as the happiest married couple; happy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **marry** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **hear** | past | you | the happiest married couple *not said here* | | a story | ever | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer couple=Stimulus | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/4/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/)