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title: The wedding was at once celebrated and there was feasting and merry-… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wedding was at once celebrated and there was feasting and merry-making throughout the kingdom for six weeks. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 123

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The wedding was at once celebrated and there was feasting and merry-making throughout the kingdom for six weeks.

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**What happens:** celebrate, feast, make · **To what, where:** wedding

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. 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:pg503:26:123
# text = The wedding was at once celebrated and there was feasting and merry-making throughout the kingdom for six weeks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
6	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	feasting	feast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | the wedding |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **feast** | past · progressive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  | throughout the kingdom; week |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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