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title: So the happy couple returned to their castle, and lived there in pea… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the happy couple returned to their castle, and lived there in peace and plenty for ever after. Who acts: happy couple. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 79

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So the happy couple returned to their castle, and lived there in peace and plenty for ever after.

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**Who acts:** happy couple · **What happens:** return, live · **To what, where:** peace

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy couple), 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:pg7277:55:79
# text = So the happy couple returned to their castle, and lived there in peace and plenty for ever after.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	after	after	ADV	RB	_	11	obl	_	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 | **return** | past | the happy couple |  |  |  |  | to waves's castle *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
| 2 | **live** | past | the happy couple *not said here* |  |  | peace and plenty; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |

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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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