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description: The wedding feast was continued the next day, or, rather, the days following the celebration were a continual feast. Who acts: days. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 11

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The wedding feast was continued the next day, or, rather, the days following the celebration were a continual feast.

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**Who acts:** days · **What happens:** continue, follow, be · **To what, where:** wedding feast, celebration, continual feast

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, 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 (days), 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:pg503:51:11
# text = The wedding feast was continued the next day, or, rather, the days following the celebration were a continual feast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	celebration	celebration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past · passive |  | the wedding feast |  |  | day |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | the days *not said here* | the celebration |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celebration=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the days | a continual feast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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