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title: Then Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach lie down as before, and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach lie down as before, and sleep till morning. Who acts: Gille. 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 45

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Then Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach lie down as before, and sleep till morning.

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**Who acts:** Gille · **What happens:** lie down · **To what, where:** sleep

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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 (Gille), 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:pg3027:7:45
# text = Then Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach lie down as before, and sleep till morning.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	till	till	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | present | Gille | sleep till morning |  |  | then | before, down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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