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title: The youth and his sweetheart entered the castle, which was now their… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth and his sweetheart entered the castle, which was now theirs, and held their wedding; and all the kings roundabout, who had been in the troll’s debt, and were now out of it, came to the wedding, and saluted the youth as their emperor, and he ruled over them all, and kept peace between them,
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 1

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The youth and his sweetheart entered the castle, which was now theirs, and held their wedding; and all the kings roundabout, who had been in the troll’s debt, and were now out of it, came to the wedding, and saluted the youth as their emperor, and he ruled over them all, and kept peace between them, and lived in his castle with his beautiful empress in great joy and magnificence.

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**Who acts:** youth, castle, kings roundabout, wedding, he · **What happens:** enter, be, hold, come, salute, rule · **To what, where:** castle, theirs, wedding, debt, youth, peace

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, castle, kings roundabout, wedding), 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:pg5615:28:1
# text = The youth and his sweetheart entered the castle, which was now theirs, and held their wedding; and all the kings roundabout, who had been in the troll’s debt, and were now out of it, came to the wedding, and saluted the youth as their emperor, and he ruled over them all, and kept peace between them, and lived in his castle with his beautiful empress in great joy and magnificence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	compound	_	_
24	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	parataxis	_	_
58	over	over	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
60	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	conj	_	_
64	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	xcomp	_	_
65	between	between	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
70	in	in	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	72	nmod:poss	_	_
72	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	_
73	with	with	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
74	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	76	nmod:poss	_	_
75	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	amod	_	_
76	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nmod	_	_
77	in	in	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	79	amod	_	_
79	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	nmod	_	_
80	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	81	cc	_	_
81	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the youth and his sweetheart | the castle |  |  |  | all kings roundabout and the troll's debt *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the castle | theirs *= they* |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the youth and his sweetheart *not said here* | youth's wedding |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | all kings roundabout and the troll's debt |  |  | the troll's debt |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | wedding | now |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | past | wedding |  |  | the wedding |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **salute** | past | wedding *not said here* | the youth |  |  |  | as youth's emperor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent youth=Theme as emperor=Attribute |
| 8 | **rule** | past | he | youth |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 9 | **keep** | participle | he *not said here* | peace between youth |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **live** | past | the youth and his sweetheart *not said here* |  |  | his castle with his beautiful empress in great joy and magnificence |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
| 11 | **wed** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event 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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