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title: Our fairy marriages are contracted with no other ceremonies than a m… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Our fairy marriages are contracted with no other ceremonies than a mutual consent. Who acts: Our. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 48

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Our fairy marriages are contracted with no other ceremonies than a mutual consent.

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**Who acts:** Our · **What happens:** contract, marry · **To what, where:** fairy marriages

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:12:48
# text = Our fairy marriages are contracted with no other ceremonies than a mutual consent.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	contracted	contract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contract** | present · passive |  | Our fairy marriages |  |  |  | with no other ceremonies than a mutual consent | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with ceremony=Instrument |
| 2 | **marry** |  | Our |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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