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title: When the festivities were over, the wolf bade them all farewell, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the festivities were over, the wolf bade them all farewell, and returned once more to his life in the woods, much to the regret of the old King and the young Prince and his bride. Who acts: festivities, old King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid, with its 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 103

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When the festivities were over, the wolf bade them all farewell, and returned once more to his life in the woods, much to the regret of the old King and the young Prince and his bride.

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**Who acts:** festivities, old King · **What happens:** be, return, regret · **To what, where:** woods

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festivities, old King), 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:pg7277:52:103
# text = When the festivities were over, the wolf bade them all farewell, and returned once more to his life in the woods, much to the regret of the old King and the young Prince and his bride.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the festivities |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past |  |  |  | the woods |  | to wrath's life; to the regret of the old King and the young Prince and wrath's bride | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location to regret=Destination |
| 3 | **regret** |  | the old King and the young Prince and wrath's bride |  |  |  |  |  | nom regret «feeling intransitive»: of=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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