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title: So they were to be married, and great rejoicings were made, and the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they were to be married, and great rejoicings were made, and the two looked forward to a long life of happiness together, when the very night before the wedding feast a sudden illness seized the girl, and, without a word to her friends who were weeping round her, she passed silently away. Who act
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 4

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So they were to be married, and great rejoicings were made, and the two looked forward to a long life of happiness together, when the very night before the wedding feast a sudden illness seized the girl, and, without a word to her friends who were weeping round her, she passed silently away.

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**Who acts:** two, sudden illness, friends, illness · **What happens:** marry, make, look, seize, weep, pass away · **To what, where:** braves, great rejoicings, girl

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, sudden illness, friends, illness), 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:pg640:28:4
# text = So they were to be married, and great rejoicings were made, and the two looked forward to a long life of happiness together, when the very night before the wedding feast a sudden illness seized the girl, and, without a word to her friends who were weeping round her, she passed silently away.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	without	without	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	round	round	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
58	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	away	away	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | braves *= brave* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | great rejoicings |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **look** | past | the two |  |  |  |  | to a long life of happiness; forward, together *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to life=Theme |
| 4 | **seize** | past | a sudden illness | the girl |  |  | night | without a word to illness's friends | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 5 | **weep** | past · progressive | illness's friends |  |  |  |  | round illness | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pass away** | past | illness |  |  |  |  | away, silently *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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