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title: And so he did, and Ian Direach let the bay colt into the ship and th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so he did, and Ian Direach let the bay colt into the ship and the princess went after them, and they set sail for Dhiurradh. Who acts: Gille, Ian, princess, Heads. 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 27

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And so he did, and Ian Direach let the bay colt into the ship and the princess went after them, and they set sail for Dhiurradh.

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**Who acts:** Gille, Ian, princess, Heads · **What happens:** do, let, bay, go, set · **To what, where:** colt, ship, sail

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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, Ian, princess, Heads), 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:pg3027:8:27
# text = And so he did, and Ian Direach let the bay colt into the ship and the princess went after them, and they set sail for Dhiurradh.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bay	bay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Dhiurradh	Dhiurradh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Gille |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | past | Ian |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bay** | infinitive | Ian *not said here* | colt |  | the ship |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent colt=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | the princess |  |  |  | after Heads *= head* |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **set** | past | Heads *= head* | sail |  |  |  | for Dhiurradh | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sail=Patient for dhiurradh=Beneficiary |

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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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