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title: And the king believed her words, and the marriage took place without… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king believed her words, and the marriage took place without the veil being once lifted. Who acts: king, marriage, woman. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 34

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And the king believed her words, and the marriage took place without the veil being once lifted.

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**Who acts:** king, marriage, woman · **What happens:** believe, take, lift, word · **To what, where:** words, place, veil

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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 (king, marriage, woman), 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:pg5615:18:34
# text = And the king believed her words, and the marriage took place without the veil being once lifted.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the king | woman's words |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | the marriage | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **lift** | gerund · passive |  | the veil |  |  |  | once *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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