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title: But though he was as happy as the day was long, and as merry as a gr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But though he was as happy as the day was long, and as merry as a grig, the King’s daughter fretted all day, thinking of the indignity that had been done her in making her marry Martin, the poor widow’s son, instead of a rich young Prince from a foreign country. Who acts: Martin, day, feast. A sente
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 133

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But though he was as happy as the day was long, and as merry as a grig, the King’s daughter fretted all day, thinking of the indignity that had been done her in making her marry Martin, the poor widow’s son, instead of a rich young Prince from a foreign country.

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**Who acts:** Martin, day, feast · **What happens:** be, fret, think, do, make, marry · **To what, where:** daughter, indignity, feast, Martin, foreign country

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, day, feast), 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:pg640:33:133
# text = But though he was as happy as the day was long, and as merry as a grig, the King’s daughter fretted all day, thinking of the indignity that had been done her in making her marry Martin, the poor widow’s son, instead of a rich young Prince from a foreign country.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grig	grig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	fretted	fret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	indignity	indignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	54	case	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	fixed	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
55	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Martin |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the day |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Martin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a grig and the King's daughter | tree rules |
| 4 | **fret** | participle |  | the King's daughter *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Martin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the indignity | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | the indignity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | gerund | Martin *not said here* | feast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **marry** | infinitive | feast *not said here* | Martin |  | a foreign country |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martin=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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