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title: 'Fortune is against you, Ian Direach; I have but the cheek and the h… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Fortune is against you, Ian Direach; I have but the cheek and the hoof of a sheep to give you, and with these you must be content.' Who acts: Fortune, you. 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 42

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'Fortune is against you, Ian Direach; I have but the cheek and the hoof of a sheep to give you, and with these you must be content.'

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**Who acts:** Fortune, you · **What happens:** be, have, give · **To what, where:** cheek, you

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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 (Fortune, you), 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:pg3027:7:42
# text = 'Fortune is against you, Ian Direach; I have but the cheek and the hoof of a sheep to give you, and with these you must be content.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	obl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Fortune |  |  |  |  | against you | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | you | the cheek and the hoof of a sheep |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | must | you |  |  |  |  | with these; content *property* | 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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