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title: And Ian turned away with a sinking heart, for he would fain have fol… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Ian turned away with a sinking heart, for he would fain have followed the youngest daughter of the knight of Grianaig. Who acts: Ian. 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 97

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And Ian turned away with a sinking heart, for he would fain have followed the youngest daughter of the knight of Grianaig.

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**Who acts:** Ian · **What happens:** turn away, follow · **To what, where:** youngest daughter

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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 (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:pg3027:5:97
# text = And Ian turned away with a sinking heart, for he would fain have followed the youngest daughter of the knight of Grianaig.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sinking	sinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | past | Ian |  |  |  |  | with a sinking heart; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | would · perfect | Ian *not said here* | the youngest daughter of the knight of Grianaig |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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