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title: Never before had so grand a wedding been seen, and there was so much… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Never before had so grand a wedding been seen, and there was so much food and wine that even the glutton and the thirsty comrade had enough to eat and drink. Who acts: much food, glutton. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 143

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Never before had so grand a wedding been seen, and there was so much food and wine that even the glutton and the thirsty comrade had enough to eat and drink.

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**Who acts:** much food, glutton · **What happens:** have, see, be, eat, drink · **To what, where:** wedding, much food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much food, glutton), 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:pg640:35:143
# text = Never before had so grand a wedding been seen, and there was so much food and wine that even the glutton and the thirsty comrade had enough to eat and drink.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	glutton	glutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
28	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | before, grand *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | participle · passive |  | wedding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | much food and wine |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the glutton and the thirsty comrade | much food and wine |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | much food and wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **drink** | infinitive | much food and wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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