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title: 'Nought will bring him but a shake of that iron chain which hangs ou… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Nought will bring him but a shake of that iron chain which hangs outside the gate. Who acts: Nought, iron chain. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

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'Nought will bring him but a shake of that iron chain which hangs outside the gate.

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**Who acts:** Nought, iron chain · **What happens:** bring, hang · **To what, where:** Ian, gate

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nought, iron chain), 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:pg3027:5:3
# text = 'Nought will bring him but a shake of that iron chain which hangs outside the gate.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | future | Nought |  | Ian |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **hang** | present | that iron chain |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside gate=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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