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title: By the orders of the bride, they only served her father at the weddi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By the orders of the bride, they only served her father at the wedding breakfast bread without salt, and meat without seasoning. Who acts: daughters, meat. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 45

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By the orders of the bride, they only served her father at the wedding breakfast bread without salt, and meat without seasoning.

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**Who acts:** daughters, meat · **What happens:** serve, season, order · **To what, where:** father, wedding breakfast bread, bride

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, meat), 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:pg7277:24:45
# text = By the orders of the bride, they only served her father at the wedding breakfast bread without salt, and meat without seasoning.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	seasoning	season	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | daughters *= daughter* | Princess's father |  | the wedding breakfast bread |  | by the orders of the bride; without salt | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Attribute |
| 2 | **season** | gerund | meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **order** |  |  | the bride |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=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 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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