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title: The next year sons were born to Oireal and Iarlaid; and the son of O… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next year sons were born to Oireal and Iarlaid; and the son of Oireal was big and strong, but the son of Iarlaid was little and weak, and each had six foster brothers who went everywhere with the princes. Who acts: son, six foster brothers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, O
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 63

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The next year sons were born to Oireal and Iarlaid; and the son of Oireal was big and strong, but the son of Iarlaid was little and weak, and each had six foster brothers who went everywhere with the princes.

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**Who acts:** son, six foster brothers · **What happens:** bear, be, have, go · **To what, where:** next year sons, Oireal, six foster brothers

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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 (son, six foster brothers), 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:pg3027:15:63
# text = The next year sons were born to Oireal and Iarlaid; and the son of Oireal was big and strong, but the son of Iarlaid was little and weak, and each had six foster brothers who went everywhere with the princes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Oireal	Oireal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Oireal	Oireal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
36	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the next year sons | Oireal and Iarlaid |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the son of Oireal |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the son of Oireal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the son of Iarlaid |  |  |  |  | little *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the son of Oireal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past |  | six foster brothers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 7 | **go** | past | six foster brothers |  |  |  |  | with the princes; everywhere *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with prince=Beneficiary |

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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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