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title: So Ian Direach did all things as the fox had told him, and the Seven… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Ian Direach did all things as the fox had told him, and the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh took him for their servant, and for six weeks he worked so hard that his seven mistresses said to each other: 'Never has a servant had the skill to make all bright and shining like this one. Who acts: Ian, Se
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 79

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So Ian Direach did all things as the fox had told him, and the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh took him for their servant, and for six weeks he worked so hard that his seven mistresses said to each other: 'Never has a servant had the skill to make all bright and shining like this one.

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**Who acts:** Ian, Seven Big Women, fox, seven mistresses, servant · **What happens:** do, tell, take, work, say, not have · **To what, where:** things, fox, Ian, each, skill · **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, Seven Big Women, fox, seven mistresses), 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:pg3027:7:79
# text = So Ian Direach did all things as the fox had told him, and the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh took him for their servant, and for six weeks he worked so hard that his seven mistresses said to each other: 'Never has a servant had the skill to make all bright and shining like this one.
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	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	Seven	Seven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Dhiurradh	Dhiurradh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	mistresses	mistress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	39	obl	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
54	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	55	det	_	_
55	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	conj	_	_
58	like	like	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ian | all things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the fox | Ian |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | past | the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh | Ian |  |  |  | for Women's servant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for servant=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **work** | past | fox |  |  |  | week | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fox's seven mistresses |  | each |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
| 6 | **not** **have** | present | fox's seven mistresses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | a servant | the skill |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient |
| 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | a servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 9 | **shine** | gerund | a servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like this one | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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