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title: So the eagle took the younger sister to wife, and the owl the elder,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the eagle took the younger sister to wife, and the owl the elder, and never was a home more peaceful than theirs! Who acts: eagle, owl. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 88

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So the eagle took the younger sister to wife, and the owl the elder, and never was a home more peaceful than theirs!

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**Who acts:** eagle, owl · **What happens:** take, elder, not be · **To what, where:** younger sister, home

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, owl), 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:pg3027:26:88
# text = So the eagle took the younger sister to wife, and the owl the elder, and never was a home more peaceful than theirs!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the eagle |  | the younger sister |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination |
| 2 | **elder** |  | the owl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a home |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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