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title: Thus it was done; and though the earl's wife was eager to keep her d… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus it was done; and though the earl's wife was eager to keep her daughter with her yet a while, she was fain to yield, as the wife of Iarlaid vowed that not a rood of land should the earl have, unless he did her bidding. Who acts: wife, earl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, O
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 82

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Thus it was done; and though the earl's wife was eager to keep her daughter with her yet a while, she was fain to yield, as the wife of Iarlaid vowed that not a rood of land should the earl have, unless he did her bidding.

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**Who acts:** wife, earl · **What happens:** do, be, keep, yield, vow, have · **To what, where:** house, daughter, rood, bidding

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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 (wife, earl), 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:pg3027:15:82
# text = Thus it was done; and though the earl's wife was eager to keep her daughter with her yet a while, she was fain to yield, as the wife of Iarlaid vowed that not a rood of land should the earl have, unless he did her bidding.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rood	rood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | house |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the earl's wife |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the earl's wife *not said here* | wife's daughter |  |  |  | with wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **yield** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **vow** | past | the wife of Iarlaid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | should | the earl | a rood of land |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | earl | wife's bidding |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 9 | **bid** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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