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title: But Gille Mairtean the fox would take no reward for the help he had… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Gille Mairtean the fox would take no reward for the help he had given to Ian Direach, only his friendship. Who acts: Gille, help. 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 56

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But Gille Mairtean the fox would take no reward for the help he had given to Ian Direach, only his friendship.

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**Who acts:** Gille, help · **What happens:** take, give · **To what, where:** reward, Gille, 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 (Gille, help), 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:pg3027:8:56
# text = But Gille Mairtean the fox would take no reward for the help he had given to Ian Direach, only his friendship.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Gille	Gille	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | Gille | no reward |  |  |  | for the help | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent reward=Theme for help=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | the help *not said here* | Gille | Ian |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ian=Recipient |

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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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