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title: 'Then who are you in the leeward, or in the windward, or in the four… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Then who are you in the leeward, or in the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to move my battle- chain?' Who acts: four brown boundaries. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 110

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'Then who are you in the leeward, or in the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to move my battle- chain?'

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**Who acts:** four brown boundaries · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** leeward, battle chain

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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 (four brown boundaries), 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:pg3027:4:110
# text = 'Then who are you in the leeward, or in the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to move my battle- chain?'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	leeward	leeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	windward	windward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the leeward or the windward | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the four brown boundaries of the sea |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | the four brown boundaries of the sea *not said here* | my battle chain |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |

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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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