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title: Then spake Iarlaid, the younger, and he said: 'Let one half be yours… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then spake Iarlaid, the younger, and he said: 'Let one half be yours, and the other give to me; then you will have fewer people to rule over.' Who acts: you, Iarlaid, one half, other. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 59

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Then spake Iarlaid, the younger, and he said: 'Let one half be yours, and the other give to me; then you will have fewer people to rule over.'

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**Who acts:** you, Iarlaid, one half, other, fewer people · **What happens:** speak, say, let, be, give, have · **To what, where:** Iarlaid, one half, yours, me, fewer people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Iarlaid, one half, other), 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:pg3027:15:59
# text = Then spake Iarlaid, the younger, and he said: 'Let one half be yours, and the other give to me; then you will have fewer people to rule over.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	obj	_	_
16	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
30	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
34	over	over	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | Iarlaid |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Iarlaid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one half |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive | one half *not said here* | yours |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot your=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | the other |  | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 6 | **have** | future | you | fewer people |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **rule over** | to-infinitive | fewer people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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