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title: But there is neither to leeward, nor to westward, nor in the four br… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But there is neither to leeward, nor to westward, nor in the four brown boundaries of the sea, any man that can hold battle with him, save Ian, the soldier's son, and he is now but sixteen years of age.' Who acts: man, Ian. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 4

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But there is neither to leeward, nor to westward, nor in the four brown boundaries of the sea, any man that can hold battle with him, save Ian, the soldier's son, and he is now but sixteen years of age.'

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**Who acts:** man, Ian · **What happens:** be, hold, save · **To what, where:** battle, Ian, sixteen years

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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 (man, Ian), 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:pg3027:5:4
# text = But there is neither to leeward, nor to westward, nor in the four brown boundaries of the sea, any man that can hold battle with him, save Ian, the soldier's son, and he is now but sixteen years of age.'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	leeward	leeward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	westward	westward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
32	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
42	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | westward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | can | any man | battle |  |  |  | with man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | any man *not said here* | Ian |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Ian | sixteen years |  |  | of age; now |  | tree rules |

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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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