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title: Now it happened that the very next day the marriage contract of Lady… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened that the very next day the marriage contract of Lady Mary and Mr. Fox was to be signed, and there was a splendid breakfast before that. Who acts: it, splendid breakfast. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., with its dependency tre
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 12

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Now it happened that the very next day the marriage contract of Lady Mary and Mr. Fox was to be signed, and there was a splendid breakfast before that.

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**Who acts:** it, splendid breakfast · **What happens:** happen, sign, be, contract · **To what, where:** marriage contract, that, Lady Mary

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, splendid breakfast), 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:pg7439:31:12
# text = Now it happened that the very next day the marriage contract of Lady Mary and Mr. Fox was to be signed, and there was a splendid breakfast before that.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	contract	contract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sign** | past · passive |  | the marriage contract of Lady Mary and Fox  Mr. |  |  | day |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **be** | past | a splendid breakfast |  |  | that; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before that=Location |
| 4 | **contract** |  |  | Lady Mary and Fox  Mr. |  |  |  |  | nom contract «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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