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title: So they were married, and in the middle of all the festivities and r… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they were married, and in the middle of all the festivities and rejoicings the bride’s father came home and was not a little surprised at finding his daughter celebrating her wedding. Who acts: daughter, girl. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads, with its dependen
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 60

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So they were married, and in the middle of all the festivities and rejoicings the bride’s father came home and was not a little surprised at finding his daughter celebrating her wedding.

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**Who acts:** daughter, girl · **What happens:** marry, come, not be, find, celebrate, wed · **To what, where:** lads, middle, daughter, wedding

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, girl), 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:pg7277:49:60
# text = So they were married, and in the middle of all the festivities and rejoicings the bride’s father came home and was not a little surprised at finding his daughter celebrating her wedding.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
28	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | lads *= lad* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the middle of all festivities  the bride's father and rejoicings |  | home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | gerund |  | brother's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic |
| 5 | **celebrate** | gerund | brother's daughter *not said here* | girl's wedding |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme |
| 6 | **wed** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event 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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