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title: 'My cave is just here,' said the Dog of Maol- mor, of whom Covan son… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'My cave is just here,' said the Dog of Maol- mor, of whom Covan son of Gorla had heard much. ' Who acts: cave, Covan son. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 87

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'My cave is just here,' said the Dog of Maol- mor, of whom Covan son of Gorla had heard much. '

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**Who acts:** cave, Covan son · **What happens:** be, say, hear · **To what, where:** Dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, Covan son), 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:pg3027:30:87
# text = 'My cave is just here,' said the Dog of Maol- mor, of whom Covan son of Gorla had heard much. '
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Maol	Maol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	mor	mor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
19	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My cave |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Dog of Maol mor |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | Covan son of Gorla |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of whom=Stimulus |

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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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