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title: Their marriage took place the next day, and they lived happily ever… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their marriage took place the next day, and they lived happily ever afterwards, for Celandine was never vain and Featherhead was never fickle any more. Who acts: marriage, subjects, Celandine, Featherhead. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celan
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 197

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Their marriage took place the next day, and they lived happily ever afterwards, for Celandine was never vain and Featherhead was never fickle any more.

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**Who acts:** marriage, subjects, Celandine, Featherhead · **What happens:** take, live, not be, marry · **To what, where:** place

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, subjects, Celandine, Featherhead), 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:pg7277:12:197
# text = Their marriage took place the next day, and they lived happily ever afterwards, for Celandine was never vain and Featherhead was never fickle any more.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	fickle	fickle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | subjects's marriage | place |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  | afterwards, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | Celandine |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Featherhead |  |  |  |  | fickle *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **marry** |  | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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