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title: And you shall offer yourself to serve in his stable, and to tend his… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And you shall offer yourself to serve in his stable, and to tend his horses, till at length so well content is he, that he gives you the bay colt to wash and brush. Who acts: you, well content, Erin. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 92

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And you shall offer yourself to serve in his stable, and to tend his horses, till at length so well content is he, that he gives you the bay colt to wash and brush.

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**Who acts:** you, well content, Erin · **What happens:** offer, serve, tend, be, give, wash · **To what, where:** yourself, horses, Erin, bay colt, you

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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, well content, Erin), 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:pg3027:7:92
# text = And you shall offer yourself to serve in his stable, and to tend his horses, till at length so well content is he, that he gives you the bay colt to wash and brush.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tend	tend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	bay	bay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | shall | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Erin's stable | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in stable=Attribute |
| 3 | **tend** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Erin's horses |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | well content | Erin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | present | Erin | the bay colt | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient colt=Theme |
| 6 | **wash** | to-infinitive | Erin *not said here* | the bay colt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **brush** | infinitive | Erin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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