--- title: Now these words were carried by a messenger to the wife of Oireal, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now these words were carried by a messenger to the wife of Oireal, and she made haste and sent a ship to Old Bergen to bear away her son before the Red Gruagach should take the head off him. Who acts: messenger, wife, Red Gruagach. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/) / 19 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 19 Now these words were carried by a messenger to the wife of Oireal, and she made haste and sent a ship to Old Bergen to bear away her son before the Red Gruagach should take the head off him. **Who acts:** messenger, wife, Red Gruagach · **What happens:** carry, make, send, bear away, take · **To what, where:** words, wife, haste, ship, Old Bergen, son This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, wife, Red Gruagach), 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:pg3027:16:19 # text = Now these words were carried by a messenger to the wife of Oireal, and she made haste and sent a ship to Old Bergen to bear away her son before the Red Gruagach should take the head off him. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Oireal Oireal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Bergen Bergen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 before before SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 34 Gruagach Gruagach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 off off ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past · passive | a messenger | this words | the wife of Oireal | | now | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to wife=Destination | | 2 | **make** | past | wife | haste | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | | 3 | **send** | past | wife *not said here* | a ship | Old Bergen | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme to bergen=Destination | | 4 | **bear away** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | wife's son | | | | away *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 5 | **take** | should | the Red Gruagach | the head | | | | off Bergen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off he=Initial\_Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/20/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/)