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title: The wedding garment was so beautiful nothing like it had ever been s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wedding garment was so beautiful nothing like it had ever been seen before, but when it was almost finished the tailor found that he had no more silk. Who acts: wedding garment, tailor, marriage. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependenc
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 130

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The wedding garment was so beautiful nothing like it had ever been seen before, but when it was almost finished the tailor found that he had no more silk.

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**Who acts:** wedding garment, tailor, marriage · **What happens:** be, see, finish, find, have · **To what, where:** nothing, garment, more silk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wedding garment, tailor, marriage), 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:pg5615:18:130
# text = The wedding garment was so beautiful nothing like it had ever been seen before, but when it was almost finished the tailor found that he had no more silk.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the wedding garment | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | garment |  |  | ever | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **finish** | past · passive |  | garment |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** | past | the tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | marriage | more silk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Patient |

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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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