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title: The young couple were as happy as the day was long, and the King was… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young couple were as happy as the day was long, and the King was more and more pleased with himself for having secured such a son-in-law. Who acts: young couple, day, King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 142

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The young couple were as happy as the day was long, and the King was more and more pleased with himself for having secured such a son-in-law.

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**Who acts:** young couple, day, King · **What happens:** be, secure · **To what, where:** law

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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 (young couple, day, King), 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:pg503:2:142
# text = The young couple were as happy as the day was long, and the King was more and more pleased with himself for having secured such a son-in-law.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux	_	_
25	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young couple |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the day |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the King |  |  |  |  | with king; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **secure** | gerund · perfect | the King *not said here* | such law |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition law=Theme |

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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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