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title: How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon Who acts: Ian. 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 21

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How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon

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**Who acts:** Ian · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** Blue Falcon

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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 (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:pg3027:7:21
# text = How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Ian | the Blue Falcon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer falcon=Stimulus |

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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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