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title: Everybody was delighted that he should be king, and the wedding, whi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody was delighted that he should be king, and the wedding, which took place at once, was the prettiest that can be imagined, and Prince Charming and Princess Goldilocks lived happily ever after. Who acts: Everybody, king, wedding, Charming. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 200

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Everybody was delighted that he should be king, and the wedding, which took place at once, was the prettiest that can be imagined, and Prince Charming and Princess Goldilocks lived happily ever after.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, king, wedding, Charming · **What happens:** be, take, imagine, live · **To what, where:** king, place, that

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, king, wedding, Charming), 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:pg503:28:200
# text = Everybody was delighted that he should be king, and the wedding, which took place at once, was the prettiest that can be imagined, and Prince Charming and Princess Goldilocks lived happily ever after.
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
37	after	after	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | **is** | past | Everybody |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | should | king | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | the wedding | place |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at once=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | past | the wedding |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **imagine** | can · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | past | Charming  Prince and Princess Goldilocks |  |  |  |  | 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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