--- title: When the dancing was over, the old king, her father, and her mother… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the dancing was over, the old king, her father, and her mother the queen, came up and said that this was the right time to marry her, that the bishop was ready, and it was time to put the wedding-ring on her and give her to her husband. Who acts: dancing, old king, this, bishop. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing, old king, this, bishop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7885:5:1 # text = When the dancing was over, the old king, her father, and her mother the queen, came up and said that this was the right time to marry her, that the bishop was ready, and it was time to put the wedding-ring on her and give her to her husband. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 over over ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 up up ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bishop bishop NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 54 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 iobj _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the dancing | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come up** | past | the old king and her father | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old king and her father *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | this | the right time | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **marry** | to-infinitive | the old king and her father *not said here* | mother | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | the bishop | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | past | bishop | time | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **put** | to-infinitive | the old king and her father *not said here* | the wedding ring | | | | on mother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on she=Destination | | 9 | **give** | infinitive | the old king and her father *not said here* | | mother | | | to mother's husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to husband=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Connla and the Fairy Maiden,…, 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/4/105/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/2/) - ↑ back to [Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/5/)