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title: If not, she would go into a nunnery, and he could marry no other as… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If not, she would go into a nunnery, and he could marry no other as long as she lived, for he was wedded to her with the service of the dead, which he had heard. Who acts: princess, father. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 110

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If not, she would go into a nunnery, and he could marry no other as long as she lived, for he was wedded to her with the service of the dead, which he had heard.

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**Who acts:** princess, father · **What happens:** go, marry, live, wed, hear · **To what, where:** nunnery, other, father, princess, service

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, father), 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:pg5615:7:110
# text = If not, she would go into a nunnery, and he could marry no other as long as she lived, for he was wedded to her with the service of the dead, which he had heard.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nunnery	nunnery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	wedded	wed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | princess |  |  | a nunnery |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into nunnery=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **marry** | could | father | no other |  |  |  | long *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wed** | past · passive |  | father | princess |  |  | with the service of the dead | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to she=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the service of the dead |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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