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title: And on the morrow he did, and he bade Ian go to the giant's stable w… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the morrow he did, and he bade Ian go to the giant's stable where stood a horse to whom it mattered nothing if she journeyed over land or sea. Who acts: counsel, Ian, it, horse. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 79

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And on the morrow he did, and he bade Ian go to the giant's stable where stood a horse to whom it mattered nothing if she journeyed over land or sea.

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**Who acts:** counsel, Ian, it, horse · **What happens:** do, bade, go, stand, matter, journey · **To what, where:** morrow, stable, horse, nothing, land

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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 (counsel, Ian, it, horse), 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:pg3027:5:79
# text = And on the morrow he did, and he bade Ian go to the giant's stable where stood a horse to whom it mattered nothing if she journeyed over land or sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | counsel |  |  | the morrow |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bade** | past | counsel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | Ian |  |  | the giant's stable |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Ian *not said here* | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
| 5 | **matter** | past | it | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **journey** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | horse |  |  | land or sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory |

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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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