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title: “The marriage festivities are already begun, so you shall marry my d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “The marriage festivities are already begun, so you shall marry my daughter this very day.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 139

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“The marriage festivities are already begun, so you shall marry my daughter this very day.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** begin, marry · **To what, where:** marriage festivities, daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg503:2:139
# text = “The marriage festivities are already begun, so you shall marry my daughter this very day.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the marriage festivities |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **marry** *in a quote* | shall | you | my daughter |  |  | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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