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title: So Ian Direach entered, and tended so well and carefully all the bir… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ian Direach entered, and tended so well and carefully all the birds and beasts, that the giant was better satisfied than ever he had been, and at length he thought that he might even be trusted to feed the falcon. Who acts: Ian, giant. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 58

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So Ian Direach entered, and tended so well and carefully all the birds and beasts, that the giant was better satisfied than ever he had been, and at length he thought that he might even be trusted to feed the falcon.

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**Who acts:** Ian, giant · **What happens:** enter, tend, be, think, trust, feed · **To what, where:** birds, length, giant, falcon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, giant), 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:pg3027:7:58
# text = So Ian Direach entered, and tended so well and carefully all the birds and beasts, that the giant was better satisfied than ever he had been, and at length he thought that he might even be trusted to feed the falcon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tended	tend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	ccomp	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Ian |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tend** | past | Ian *not said here* | all birds and beasts |  |  |  | well *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the giant |  |  |  |  | satisfied, well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | giant |  |  | length |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **trust** | might · passive |  | giant |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **feed** | to-infinitive |  |  | the falcon |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent falcon=Recipient |

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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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