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title: But perhaps you will allow me to go with you and show you the way?' — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But perhaps you will allow me to go with you and show you the way?' Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 84

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But perhaps you will allow me to go with you and show you the way?'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** allow, go, show · **To what, where:** me, way, you

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg3027:18:84
# text = But perhaps you will allow me to go with you and show you the way?'
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | future | you |  | me |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **show** | present | you *not said here* | the way | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic |

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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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