--- title: Then they took a boat and rowed up to some rocks, and as they touche… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they took a boat and rowed up to some rocks, and as they touched the land Gille Mairtean changed himself into a fair woman, who laughed, and said to Ian Direach, 'I will give the king a fine wife.' Who acts: rocks, Gille, fair woman, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/) / 15 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 15 Then they took a boat and rowed up to some rocks, and as they touched the land Gille Mairtean changed himself into a fair woman, who laughed, and said to Ian Direach, 'I will give the king a fine wife.' **Who acts:** rocks, Gille, fair woman, I · **What happens:** take, row up, touch, change, laugh, say · **To what, where:** boat, rocks, land, Gille, Ian, fine wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (rocks, Gille, fair woman, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:8:15 # text = Then they took a boat and rowed up to some rocks, and as they touched the land Gille Mairtean changed himself into a fair woman, who laughed, and said to Ian Direach, 'I will give the king a fine wife.' 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 rowed row VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 Gille Gille PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 Mairtean Mairtean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Ian Ian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 Direach Direach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | rocks *= rock* | a boat | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 2 | **row up** | past | rocks *= rock* *not said here* | | | some rocks | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to rock=Trajectory | | 3 | **touch** | past | rocks *= rock* | the land | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme | | 4 | **change** | past | Gille | Gille | | | | into a fair woman *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into woman=Result | | 5 | **laugh** | past | a fair woman | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | Ian | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ian=Recipient | | 7 | **give** | future | I | a fine wife | the king | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient wife=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/16/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/)