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title: So the king's son married Auburn Mary and the wedding lasted long an… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the king's son married Auburn Mary and the wedding lasted long and all were happy. Who acts: son, wedding, all. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 270

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So the king's son married Auburn Mary and the wedding lasted long and all were happy.

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**Who acts:** son, wedding, all · **What happens:** marry, last, be · **To what, where:** Auburn Mary

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, wedding, all), 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:pg7885:31:270
# text = So the king's son married Auburn Mary and the wedding lasted long and all were happy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Auburn	Auburn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past | the king's son | Auburn Mary |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mary=Patient |
| 2 | **last** | past | the wedding |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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