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title: The Fairy had asked all their friends and neighbours to their weddin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fairy had asked all their friends and neighbours to their wedding, which took place at once with great festivities and rejoicings, and they lived to a good old age, always loving one another with all their hearts. Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Syl
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 68

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The Fairy had asked all their friends and neighbours to their wedding, which took place at once with great festivities and rejoicings, and they lived to a good old age, always loving one another with all their hearts.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Sylvain · **What happens:** ask, take, live, love, wed · **To what, where:** place, one

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Sylvain), 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:pg7277:9:68
# text = The Fairy had asked all their friends and neighbours to their wedding, which took place at once with great festivities and rejoicings, and they lived to a good old age, always loving one another with all their hearts.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	35	advmod	_	_
35	loving	love	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obj	_	_
37	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	fixed	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | to Sylvain's wedding | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | place |  |  |  | with great festivities and rejoicings | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at once=Asset |
| 3 | **live** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  | to a good old age |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **love** | gerund | Sylvain *not said here* | one |  |  |  | with Sylvain's hearts; always *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wed** |  | Sylvain |  |  |  |  |  | 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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