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title: And when the shore was reached, Gille Mairtean the fox took back his… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the shore was reached, Gille Mairtean the fox took back his own shape, and spoke to Ian Direach in this wise: Who acts: fox. 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 41

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And when the shore was reached, Gille Mairtean the fox took back his own shape, and spoke to Ian Direach in this wise:

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**Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** reach, take back, speak · **To what, where:** shore, own shape, Ian, wise · **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 (fox), 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:pg3027:8:41
# text = And when the shore was reached, Gille Mairtean the fox took back his own shape, and spoke to Ian Direach in this wise:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
25	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · passive |  | the shore |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary gille=Theme |
| 2 | **take back** | past | the fox | Gille's own shape |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past |  |  | Ian | wise |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ian=Co-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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