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title: On the evening of the wedding-day all the larders, cellars, cupboard… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the evening of the wedding-day all the larders, cellars, cupboards and tables of the people, whether rich or poor, were loaded as if by enchantment with bread, wine, beer, cakes and tarts, roast larks, and even geese, so that Tubby could not complain any more that his son had married Famine. Who 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 299

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On the evening of the wedding-day all the larders, cellars, cupboards and tables of the people, whether rich or poor, were loaded as if by enchantment with bread, wine, beer, cakes and tarts, roast larks, and even geese, so that Tubby could not complain any more that his son had married Famine.

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**Who acts:** Tubby · **What happens:** load, not complain, marry · **To what, where:** son

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tubby), 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:pg540:40:299
# text = On the evening of the wedding-day all the larders, cellars, cupboards and tables of the people, whether rich or poor, were loaded as if by enchantment with bread, wine, beer, cakes and tarts, roast larks, and even geese, so that Tubby could not complain any more that his son had married Famine.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	larders	larder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
40	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	larks	lark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	56	mark	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	fixed	_	_
53	Tubby	Tubby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	_
57	any	any	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	56	advmod	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
63	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	advcl	_	_
64	Famine	Famine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **load** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | evening | as enchantment with bread and wine and beer and cakes and tarts and roast larks and geese | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme» |
| 2 | **not** **complain** *speech: other* | could | Tubby |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | goose's son |  |  |  |  | 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 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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