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title: And so that very day the gardener’s son married the beautiful Prince… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so that very day the gardener’s son married the beautiful Princess. 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 140

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And so that very day the gardener’s son married the beautiful Princess.

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**What happens:** marry · **To what, where:** beautiful Princess

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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: 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:pg503:2:140
# text = And so that very day the gardener’s son married the beautiful Princess.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past |  | the beautiful Princess |  |  | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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