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title: 'To reach the daughters of the knight of Grianaig you must get into… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'To reach the daughters of the knight of Grianaig you must get into this basket, and be drawn by a rope up the face of this rock.' Who acts: you, rope. 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 78

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'To reach the daughters of the knight of Grianaig you must get into this basket, and be drawn by a rope up the face of this rock.'

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**Who acts:** you, rope · **What happens:** reach, get, draw · **To what, where:** daughters, basket

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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 (you, rope), 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:pg3027:4:78
# text = 'To reach the daughters of the knight of Grianaig you must get into this basket, and be drawn by a rope up the face of this rock.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | the daughters of the knight of Grianaig |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | must | you |  |  | this basket |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination |
| 3 | **draw** | infinitive · passive | a rope |  |  |  |  | up the face of this rock | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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