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title: A little while after this grand preparations were made for the king’… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A little while after this grand preparations were made for the king’s marriage, and all the tailors in the town were busy embroidering fine clothes. Who acts: tailors, king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 129

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A little while after this grand preparations were made for the king’s marriage, and all the tailors in the town were busy embroidering fine clothes.

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**Who acts:** tailors, king · **What happens:** make, be, embroider, marry · **To what, where:** little while, fine clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailors, king), 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:pg5615:18:129
# text = A little while after this grand preparations were made for the king’s marriage, and all the tailors in the town were busy embroidering fine clothes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
25	embroidering	embroider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | a little while after this grand preparations |  |  |  | for the king's marriage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for marriage=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | all tailors in the town |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **embroider** | gerund | all tailors in the town *not said here* | fine clothes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Product |
| 4 | **marry** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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