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title: 'This is the place where dwell the three daughters of the knight of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'This is the place where dwell the three daughters of the knight of Grianaig, who are to be wedded to-morrow to three giants.' Who acts: This. 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 75

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'This is the place where dwell the three daughters of the knight of Grianaig, who are to be wedded to-morrow to three giants.'

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, dwell, wed · **To what, where:** place, three daughters, knight

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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 (This), 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:pg3027:4:75
# text = 'This is the place where dwell the three daughters of the knight of Grianaig, who are to be wedded to-morrow to three giants.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
7	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	wedded	wed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | infinitive |  | the three daughters of the knight of Grianaig |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme daughter=Location |
| 3 | **wed** | present · passive |  | the knight of Grianaig |  |  |  | to morrow; to three giants | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to morrow=Co-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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