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title: It was a magnificent ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom walked h… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a magnificent ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom walked hand in hand under a canopy of purple velvet embroidered with little pearls. Who acts: marriage, bride. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 101

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It was a magnificent ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom walked hand in hand under a canopy of purple velvet embroidered with little pearls.

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**Who acts:** marriage, bride · **What happens:** be, walk, embroider · **To what, where:** magnificent ceremony, hand, purple velvet

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage, bride), 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:pg902:5:101
# text = It was a magnificent ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom walked hand in hand under a canopy of purple velvet embroidered with little pearls.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	canopy	canopy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | marriage | a magnificent ceremony |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the bride and bridegroom | hand |  | hand |  | under a canopy of purple velvet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Trajectory |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  | purple velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with little pearls | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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:** «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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