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title: The king sent back the bride he had promised to wed to her own count… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The king sent back the bride he had promised to wed to her own country, and the same Catherine was queen at the marriage feast instead, and lived happy and contented to the end of her life. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, with its dep
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 16

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The king sent back the bride he had promised to wed to her own country, and the same Catherine was queen at the marriage feast instead, and lived happy and contented to the end of her life.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** send back, promise, wed, be, live, content · **To what, where:** bride, Catherine queen, marriage feast

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg5615:19:16
# text = The king sent back the bride he had promised to wed to her own country, and the same Catherine was queen at the marriage feast instead, and lived happy and contented to the end of her life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
31	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send back** | past | the king | the bride |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | king | the bride *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent bride=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to bride's own country | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to country=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | Catherine queen |  | the marriage feast |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | past |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **content** | participle |  |  |  |  | to the end of bride's life |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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