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title: And married they were then and there upon the river bank, and went h… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And married they were then and there upon the river bank, and went home to the prince’s palace, where, when the story was told, they were welcomed by the old rajah, the prince’s father, and the remainder of the day was given over to feasting and rejoicing. Who acts: wazirs, old rajah. A sentence of 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 4

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And married they were then and there upon the river bank, and went home to the prince’s palace, where, when the story was told, they were welcomed by the old rajah, the prince’s father, and the remainder of the day was given over to feasting and rejoicing.

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**Who acts:** wazirs, old rajah · **What happens:** marry, be, go, tell, welcome, give over · **To what, where:** palace, story, wazirs, remainder, feasting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wazirs, old rajah), 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:pg3454:5:4
# text = And married they were then and there upon the river bank, and went home to the prince’s palace, where, when the story was told, they were welcomed by the old rajah, the prince’s father, and the remainder of the day was given over to feasting and rejoicing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	rajah	rajah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
51	over	over	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | wazirs *= wazir* |  |  |  | then | upon the river bank; there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the prince's palace |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | the story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **welcome** | past · passive | the old rajah and the prince's father | wazirs *= wazir* |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 6 | **give over** | past · passive |  | the remainder of the day | feasting and rejoicing |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to feasting=Recipient |

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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 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.

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