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title: With slow steps went Ian Direach down to the shore where Gille Mairt… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With slow steps went Ian Direach down to the shore where Gille Mairtean the fox awaited him. Who acts: slow steps, Gille fox. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 106

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With slow steps went Ian Direach down to the shore where Gille Mairtean the fox awaited him.

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**Who acts:** slow steps, Gille fox · **What happens:** go down, await · **To what, where:** Ian

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slow steps, Gille fox), 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:pg3027:7:106
# text = With slow steps went Ian Direach down to the shore where Gille Mairtean the fox awaited him.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
12	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | slow steps | Ian |  |  |  | to the shore *result*; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ian=Extent to shore=Result |
| 2 | **await** | past | the Gille fox | Ian |  |  |  |  | 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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