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title: Thus all their troubles were ended, and they lived happily ever afte… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus all their troubles were ended, and they lived happily ever afterward. Who acts: troubles, stones. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 131

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Thus all their troubles were ended, and they lived happily ever afterward.

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**Who acts:** troubles, stones · **What happens:** be, live, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troubles, stones), 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:pg503:35:131
# text = Thus all their troubles were ended, and they lived happily ever afterward.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | stones's troubles |  |  |  |  | ended, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | troubles *= trouble* |  |  |  |  | afterward, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trouble** |  | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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