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title: Ian did as the raven bade him, and in spite of the eldest daughter's… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ian did as the raven bade him, and in spite of the eldest daughter's entreaties, he set out to seek her next sister. Who acts: Ian, man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 126

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Ian did as the raven bade him, and in spite of the eldest daughter's entreaties, he set out to seek her next sister.

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**Who acts:** Ian, man · **What happens:** do, set out, seek, spite · **To what, where:** raven bade, spite, next sister, entreaties

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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 (Ian, man), 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:pg3027:4:126
# text = Ian did as the raven bade him, and in spite of the eldest daughter's entreaties, he set out to seek her next sister.
1	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	raven	raven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ian | the raven bade |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set out** | past | man |  |  | spite of the eldest daughter's entreaties |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | door's next sister |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | the eldest daughter's entreaties |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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