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title: For they insist on having all their wedding-clothes made for them fi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For they insist on having all their wedding-clothes made for them first, exactly like those which they used to have in the other world, and that without being measured for them. Who acts: brides. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 103

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For they insist on having all their wedding-clothes made for them first, exactly like those which they used to have in the other world, and that without being measured for them.

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**Who acts:** brides · **What happens:** insist, have, make, use, measure · **To what, where:** wedding clothes, other world

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brides), 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:pg540:13:103
# text = For they insist on having all their wedding-clothes made for them first, exactly like those which they used to have in the other world, and that without being measured for them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	insist	insist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | present | brides *= bride* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | brides *= bride* *not said here* | brides's wedding clothes |  |  |  | like those | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | brides's wedding clothes *not said here* |  |  |  | for brides *= bride*; first *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for they=Asset |
| 4 | **use** | past | brides *= bride* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | brides *= bride* *not said here* |  |  | the other world |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **measure** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for brides *= bride* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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