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title: For when a reindeer calf has reached the age at which he begins firs… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For when a reindeer calf has reached the age at which he begins first to lose his hair he is so swift that neither beast nor bird can come near him. Who acts: calf, beast. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 98

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For when a reindeer calf has reached the age at which he begins first to lose his hair he is so swift that neither beast nor bird can come near him.

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**Who acts:** calf, beast · **What happens:** reach, begin, lose, be, come · **To what, where:** reindeer calf, age, hair

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calf, beast), 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:pg3027:36:98
# text = For when a reindeer calf has reached the age at which he begins first to lose his hair he is so swift that neither beast nor bird can come near him.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc	_	_
27	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
30	near	near	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present · perfect · passive |  | a reindeer calf |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary age=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | present | calf |  |  |  | at the age | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive | calf | calf's hair |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | swift *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | can | neither beast nor bird |  |  |  |  | near calf | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location |

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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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