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title: He ordered the spirits of the air to fly through all space, and to b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered the spirits of the air to fly through all space, and to bring back Rosalie wherever she might be. Who acts: word. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 47

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He ordered the spirits of the air to fly through all space, and to bring back Rosalie wherever she might be.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** order, fly, bring back · **To what, where:** spirits, space, Rosalie

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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:pg640:17:47
# text = He ordered the spirits of the air to fly through all space, and to bring back Rosalie wherever she might be.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | word | the spirits of the air |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | word *not said here* |  |  | all space |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through space=Location |
| 3 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | word *not said here* |  | Rosalie |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rosalie=Destination |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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