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title: Therefore, as all may well believe, there was joy and merriment at t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, as all may well believe, there was joy and merriment at that wedding. Who acts: all, joy. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 115

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Therefore, as all may well believe, there was joy and merriment at that wedding.

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**Who acts:** all, joy · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** wedding

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, joy), 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:pg540:49:115
# text = Therefore, as all may well believe, there was joy and merriment at that wedding.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | may | all |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | past | joy and merriment |  |  | that wedding; there |  | therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wedding=Location |

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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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