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title: 'In the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'In the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, there is none who could give my chain a shake save only Ian, the soldier's son. Who acts: none. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 43

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'In the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, there is none who could give my chain a shake save only Ian, the soldier's son.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** be, give, save · **To what, where:** leeward, chain, Ian

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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 (none), 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:pg3027:5:43
# text = 'In the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, there is none who could give my chain a shake save only Ian, the soldier's son.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leeward	leeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	windward	windward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
22	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	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	.	_	30	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | none *not said here* |  |  | the leeward or the windward or the four brown boundaries of the sea; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leeward=Location |
| 2 | **give** | could |  | my chain |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chain=Recipient shake=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present | none | Ian |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Theme |

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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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