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title: And after they had reached the shore, and beheld the sea stretching… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And after they had reached the shore, and beheld the sea stretching before them, and the isle of Dhiurradh in the midst of it, the soul of Ian sank, and he turned to Gille Mairtean and asked why he had brought him thither, for the giant, when he had sent him, had known full well that without a boat 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 74

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And after they had reached the shore, and beheld the sea stretching before them, and the isle of Dhiurradh in the midst of it, the soul of Ian sank, and he turned to Gille Mairtean and asked why he had brought him thither, for the giant, when he had sent him, had known full well that without a boat he could never find the Big Women.

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**Who acts:** fathers, sea, Ian · **What happens:** reach, behold, stretch, sink, turn, ask · **To what, where:** shore, sea, soul, Gille, full well · **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 (fathers, sea, Ian), 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:pg3027:7:74
# text = And after they had reached the shore, and beheld the sea stretching before them, and the isle of Dhiurradh in the midst of it, the soul of Ian sank, and he turned to Gille Mairtean and asked why he had brought him thither, for the giant, when he had sent him, had known full well that without a boat he could never find the Big Women.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Dhiurradh	Dhiurradh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	ccomp	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	56	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	51	conj	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
61	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
63	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	70	obj	_	_
64	without	without	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
67	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
68	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
69	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	70	advmod	_	_
70	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	acl:relcl	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	73	det	_	_
72	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | fathers *= father* | the shore |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
| 2 | **behold** | past | fathers *= father* *not said here* | the sea |  |  |  | the isle of Dhiurradh in the midst of sea and the soul *obl* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stretch** | gerund | the sea *not said here* |  |  |  | before fathers *= father* |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sink** | past | Ian | the soul *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 5 | **turn** | past | Ian |  | Gille |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to gille=Result |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ian *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **bring** | past · perfect | Ian |  | Gille |  |  | thither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 8 | **send** | past · perfect | Ian | Gille |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 9 | **know** | past · perfect | Ian *not said here* | full well |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer well=Stimulus |
| 10 | **not** **find** | could | Ian | full well |  |  |  | without a boat | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme woman=Attribute |

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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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