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title: The festivities lasted several months, and then each king and queen… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The festivities lasted several months, and then each king and queen departed to their own kingdom and lived happily ever after. Who acts: festivities. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 29

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The festivities lasted several months, and then each king and queen departed to their own kingdom and lived happily ever after.

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**Who acts:** festivities · **What happens:** last, depart, live · **To what, where:** king, queen, own kingdom

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festivities), 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:pg503:25:29
# text = The festivities lasted several months, and then each king and queen departed to their own kingdom and lived happily ever after.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	after	after	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | the festivities | each king and queen |  |  | month |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | participle |  | queen *not said here* |  | festivities's own kingdom |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **live** | past | the festivities *not said here* |  |  |  |  | after, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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