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title: And Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach tell the princess that s… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach tell the princess that she must bide yet a while in a cave amongst the rocks, for they had business on land, and after a while they would return to her. Who acts: Gille Mairtean, Mairtean, rocks. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Openin
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 14

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And Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach tell the princess that she must bide yet a while in a cave amongst the rocks, for they had business on land, and after a while they would return to her.

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**Who acts:** Gille Mairtean, Mairtean, rocks · **What happens:** tell, bide, have, return · **To what, where:** princess, cave, business, land, Mairtean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gille Mairtean, Mairtean, rocks), 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:pg3027:8:14
# text = And Gille Mairtean the fox bade Ian Direach tell the princess that she must bide yet a while in a cave amongst the rocks, for they had business on land, and after a while they would return to her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bide	bide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
29	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Gille Mairtean |  | the princess |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bide** | must | Mairtean |  |  | a cave | yet; while | amongst the rocks | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | rocks *= rock* | business |  | land |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | would | rocks *= rock* |  | Mairtean |  | while |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result |

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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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