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title: 'If you wish for my falcon you must first bring me the White Sword o… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'If you wish for my falcon you must first bring me the White Sword of Light that is in the house of the Big Women of Dhiurradh.' Who acts: you, Light. 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 65

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'If you wish for my falcon you must first bring me the White Sword of Light that is in the house of the Big Women of Dhiurradh.'

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**Who acts:** you, Light · **What happens:** wish, bring, be · **To what, where:** White Sword, me, house

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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 (you, Light), 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:pg3027:7:65
# text = 'If you wish for my falcon you must first bring me the White Sword of Light that is in the house of the Big Women of Dhiurradh.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Sword	Sword	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Dhiurradh	Dhiurradh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | for my falcon | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for falcon=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | must | you | the White Sword of Light | me |  |  | first *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sword=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Light |  |  | the house |  | of the Big Women of Dhiurradh | 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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