--- title: 'If it is spells you are laying I can lay them too,' answered Ian Di… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'If it is spells you are laying I can lay them too,' answered Ian Direach; 'and you shall stand with one foot on the great house and another on the castle, till I come back again, and your face shall be to the wind, from wheresoever it shall blow.' Who acts: feather, spells, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feather, spells, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:7:37 # text = 'If it is spells you are laying I can lay them too,' answered Ian Direach; 'and you shall stand with one foot on the great house and another on the castle, till I come back again, and your face shall be to the wind, from wheresoever it shall blow.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 spells spell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 16 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 Ian Ian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Direach Direach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 20 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 31 conj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 45 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 47 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 48 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 cop _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 from from ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 wheresoever wheresoever ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 57 obl _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | feather | spells | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | present · progressive | spells | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lay** | can | I | spells *= spell* | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | Ian Direach | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | shall | you | | | the great house | | with one foot | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on house=Location | | 6 | **come back** | present | I | | | | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | shall | your face | | | | | to the wind | tree rules | | 8 | **blow** | shall | feather | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from wheresoever=Co-Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/38/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/)