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title: 'I will become a ship,' cried Gille Mairtean, 'and you shall go on b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'I will become a ship,' cried Gille Mairtean, 'and you shall go on board me.' Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 26

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'I will become a ship,' cried Gille Mairtean, 'and you shall go on board me.'

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** become, cry, go · **To what, where:** ship, Gille

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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 (I, you), 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:pg3027:8:26
# text = 'I will become a ship,' cried Gille Mairtean, 'and you shall go on board me.'
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	board	board	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | future | I | a ship |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Gille |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gille=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | shall | you |  |  |  |  | on me | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on i=Location |

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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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