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title: Henceforth he was safe from harm, for had he not the bay colt who co… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Henceforth he was safe from harm, for had he not the bay colt who could leave one wind behind her and catch the other wind, and the blue falcon to bring him game to eat, and the White Sword of Light to pierce through his foes? Who acts: Ian, bay colt, White Sword. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Boo
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 54

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Henceforth he was safe from harm, for had he not the bay colt who could leave one wind behind her and catch the other wind, and the blue falcon to bring him game to eat, and the White Sword of Light to pierce through his foes?

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**Who acts:** Ian, bay colt, White Sword · **What happens:** be, have, not colt, leave, catch, bring · **To what, where:** harm, blue falcon, one wind, other wind, game, Ian

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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 (Ian, bay colt, White Sword), 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:pg3027:8:54
# text = Henceforth he was safe from harm, for had he not the bay colt who could leave one wind behind her and catch the other wind, and the blue falcon to bring him game to eat, and the White Sword of Light to pierce through his foes?
1	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bay	bay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Sword	Sword	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
47	through	through	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ian |  |  | harm |  | henceforth, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | the blue falcon |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **colt** |  | Ian |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | could | the bay colt | one wind |  |  |  | behind wind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme behind she=Location |
| 5 | **catch** | present | the bay colt *not said here* | the other wind |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  | game | Ian |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination game=Theme |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **pierce** | to-infinitive | the White Sword of Light |  |  |  |  | through Ian's foes | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through foe=Patient |

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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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