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title: It will be easy to understand that two weddings took place, and they… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It will be easy to understand that two weddings took place, and they were so magnificent that they were heard of and talked about all over seven kingdoms. Who acts: two weddings, weddings. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 67

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It will be easy to understand that two weddings took place, and they were so magnificent that they were heard of and talked about all over seven kingdoms.

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**Who acts:** two weddings, weddings · **What happens:** be, understand, take, hear, talk · **To what, where:** place, weddings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (two weddings, weddings), 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:pg540:46:67
# text = It will be easy to understand that two weddings took place, and they were so magnificent that they were heard of and talked about all over seven kingdoms.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	weddings	wedding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | past | two weddings | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | weddings *= wedding* |  |  |  |  | magnificent *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | past · passive |  | weddings *= wedding* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 6 | **talk** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | about seven kingdoms | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kingdom=Topic |

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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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