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title: And the king of that country gave into Ian Direach's hands the care… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the king of that country gave into Ian Direach's hands the care of his horses, and never before did their skins shine so brightly or was their pace so swift. Who acts: king, skins, horses. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 95

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And the king of that country gave into Ian Direach's hands the care of his horses, and never before did their skins shine so brightly or was their pace so swift.

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**Who acts:** king, skins, horses · **What happens:** give, shine, be, care · **To what, where:** care, hands, swift, pace

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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 (king, skins, horses), 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:pg3027:7:95
# text = And the king of that country gave into Ian Direach's hands the care of his horses, and never before did their skins shine so brightly or was their pace so swift.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the king of that country | the care of Direach's horses |  | Ian Direach's hands |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | past · do-support | king's skins | swift |  |  |  | before, brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | king's skins *not said here* | king's pace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **care** |  | Direach's horses |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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