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title: I will show you the way to his house, and I counsel you to do his bi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will show you the way to his house, and I counsel you to do his bidding, nimbly and cheerfully, and, above all, to treat his birds kindly, for in this manner he may give you his falcon to feed and care for. Who acts: I, all, Falcon. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, pa
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 48

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I will show you the way to his house, and I counsel you to do his bidding, nimbly and cheerfully, and, above all, to treat his birds kindly, for in this manner he may give you his falcon to feed and care for.

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**Who acts:** I, all, Falcon · **What happens:** show, counsel, do, treat, give, feed · **To what, where:** way, you, bidding, birds, falcon, manner

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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 (I, all, Falcon), 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:pg3027:7:48
# text = I will show you the way to his house, and I counsel you to do his bidding, nimbly and cheerfully, and, above all, to treat his birds kindly, for in this manner he may give you his falcon to feed and care for.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	counsel	counsel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	nimbly	nimbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	appos	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | future | I | the way | you |  |  | to Falcon's house | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic |
| 2 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Falcon's bidding |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 4 | **treat** | to-infinitive | all |  | Falcon's birds |  |  | kindly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient |
| 5 | **give** | may | Falcon | Falcon's falcon | you | this manner |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient falcon=Theme |
| 6 | **feed** | to-infinitive | Falcon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **care** | infinitive | Falcon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **bid** |  | Falcon |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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