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title: First came the men-at-arms and then the bridegroom's friends, and th… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: First came the men-at-arms and then the bridegroom's friends, and then Earl Mar's men, and then the bridegroom, and lastly, pale and beautiful, Earl Mar's daughter herself. Who acts: men. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 41

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First came the men-at-arms and then the bridegroom's friends, and then Earl Mar's men, and then the bridegroom, and lastly, pale and beautiful, Earl Mar's daughter herself.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** come

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7439:1432`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:35:41
# text = First came the men-at-arms and then the bridegroom's friends, and then Earl Mar's men, and then the bridegroom, and lastly, pale and beautiful, Earl Mar's daughter herself.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Mar	Mar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
29	lastly	lastly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
35	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	Mar	Mar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
39	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	38	nmod:unmarked	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the men at arms and the bridegroom's friends and Earl's men and the bridegroom and Earl's pale daughter  Earl |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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