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title: But, there, neither to leeward, nor to windward, nor in the four bro… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, there, neither to leeward, nor to windward, nor in the four brown boundaries of the sea, is there any man that can hold battle against him, save only Ian, the soldier's son, and he is now but sixteen years old, and how shall he stand against the giant?' Who acts: leeward, man, Son. A sentence o
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 100

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But, there, neither to leeward, nor to windward, nor in the four brown boundaries of the sea, is there any man that can hold battle against him, save only Ian, the soldier's son, and he is now but sixteen years old, and how shall he stand against the giant?'

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**Who acts:** leeward, man, Son · **What happens:** be, hold, save, stand · **To what, where:** battle, Ian

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leeward, man, 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:pg3027:4:100
# text = But, there, neither to leeward, nor to windward, nor in the four brown boundaries of the sea, is there any man that can hold battle against him, save only Ian, the soldier's son, and he is now but sixteen years old, and how shall he stand against the giant?'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc:preconj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	leeward	leeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	windward	windward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	against	against	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
46	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl:unmarked	_	_
50	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	56	advmod	_	_
54	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	parataxis	_	_
57	against	against	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	56	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | leeward |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | can | any man | battle |  |  |  | against man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent battle=Theme against he=Location |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | any man *not said here* | Ian |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Son |  |  |  | now; year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | shall | Son |  |  |  |  | against the giant | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against giant=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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