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title: 'Then who are you in the leeward, or the windward, or in the four br… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Then who are you in the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to shake my battle chain? Who acts: sea. 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 49

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'Then who are you in the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to shake my battle chain?

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** be, shake · **To what, where:** leeward, battle chain

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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 (sea), 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:pg3027:5:49
# text = 'Then who are you in the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to shake my battle chain?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	leeward	leeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	windward	windward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the leeward or the windward or the four brown boundaries of the sea | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the sea |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the sea *not said here* | my battle chain |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chain=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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