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title: A day for the wedding was soon fixed; and they were attended to chur… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A day for the wedding was soon fixed; and they were attended to church by the Lord Mayor, the court of aldermen, the sheriffs, and a great number of the richest merchants in London, whom they afterwards treated with a very rich feast. Who acts: Lord Mayor. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Jose
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 101

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A day for the wedding was soon fixed; and they were attended to church by the Lord Mayor, the court of aldermen, the sheriffs, and a great number of the richest merchants in London, whom they afterwards treated with a very rich feast.

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**Who acts:** Lord Mayor · **What happens:** fix, attend, treat · **To what, where:** great number, clothes, richest merchants

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord Mayor), 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:pg7439:37:101
# text = A day for the wedding was soon fixed; and they were attended to church by the Lord Mayor, the court of aldermen, the sheriffs, and a great number of the richest merchants in London, whom they afterwards treated with a very rich feast.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	aldermen	alderman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sheriffs	sheriff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
36	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	very	very	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past · passive |  | a great number of the richest merchants in London |  |  | day | soon *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **attend** | past · passive | the Lord Mayor | clothes |  |  |  | to church | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |
| 3 | **treat** | participle · passive |  | the richest merchants in London |  |  |  | with a rich feast; afterwards *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with feast=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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