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title: And now the real wedding was held, and held in such a way that it wa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the real wedding was held, and held in such a way that it was heard of and spoken about all over seven kingdoms. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 96

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And now the real wedding was held, and held in such a way that it was heard of and spoken about all over seven kingdoms.

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**What happens:** hold, hear, speak · **To what, where:** real wedding, way, wedding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg540:47:96
# text = And now the real wedding was held, and held in such a way that it was heard of and spoken about all over seven kingdoms.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the real wedding |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  | such way |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | wedding |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | 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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