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title: Then the wedding was held with great splendour, and King Charming an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the wedding was held with great splendour, and King Charming and Queen Fiordelisa lived happily ever after. Who acts: Charming. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 72

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Then the wedding was held with great splendour, and King Charming and Queen Fiordelisa lived happily ever after.

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**Who acts:** Charming · **What happens:** hold, live · **To what, where:** wedding

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming), 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:pg7277:5:72
# text = Then the wedding was held with great splendour, and King Charming and Queen Fiordelisa lived happily ever after.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	after	after	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · passive |  | the wedding |  |  | then | with great splendour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | Charming  King and Queen |  |  |  |  | after, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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