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title: So the sick son married the well sister, and the well son married th… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the sick son married the well sister, and the well son married the sick sister, and they all lived happy and died happy, and never drank out of a dry cappy. Who acts: sick son, well son, sons. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its dependency tree and the
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# English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 58

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So the sick son married the well sister, and the well son married the sick sister, and they all lived happy and died happy, and never drank out of a dry cappy.

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**Who acts:** sick son, well son, sons · **What happens:** marry, live, die, not drink out · **To what, where:** sister, sick sister, dry cappy

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick son, well son, sons), 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:pg7439:43:58
# text = So the sick son married the well sister, and the well son married the sick sister, and they all lived happy and died happy, and never drank out of a dry cappy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cappy	cappy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | the sick son | the sister |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |
| 2 | **marry** | past | the well son | the sick sister |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | past | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | past | sons *= son* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **drink out** | past | the sick son *not said here* | a dry cappy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cappy=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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