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title: For a little while Gille Mairtean let the giant play with him in thi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a little while Gille Mairtean let the giant play with him in this manner; then he turned in the giant's hand, and cut through the Five Necks, so that the Five Heads rolled on the ground. Who acts: Gille, colt. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its depend
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 46

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For a little while Gille Mairtean let the giant play with him in this manner; then he turned in the giant's hand, and cut through the Five Necks, so that the Five Heads rolled on the ground.

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**Who acts:** Gille, colt · **What happens:** let, turn, cut, roll · **To what, where:** giant play, manner, Five Heads, hand, ground

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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, colt), 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:pg3027:8:46
# text = For a little while Gille Mairtean let the giant play with him in this manner; then he turned in the giant's hand, and cut through the Five Necks, so that the Five Heads rolled on the ground.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	Necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	Heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
38	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Gille | the giant play |  | this manner |  | with colt | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | colt | the Five Heads |  | the giant's hand | then | for a little | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cut** | participle | colt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the Five Necks | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through neck=Patient |
| 4 | **roll** | participle |  | the Five Heads *not said here* |  | the ground |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |

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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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