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title: But first you must permit me to lead you to the palace of the fairie… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But first you must permit me to lead you to the palace of the fairies, which, though hard by, has never been seen by mortal eyes because of the thick clouds that surround it. Who acts: you, mortal eyes, thick clouds. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its de
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 36

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But first you must permit me to lead you to the palace of the fairies, which, though hard by, has never been seen by mortal eyes because of the thick clouds that surround it.

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**Who acts:** you, mortal eyes, thick clouds · **What happens:** permit, lead, not see, surround · **To what, where:** me, you, palace, crab

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mortal eyes, thick clouds), 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:pg3027:22:36
# text = But first you must permit me to lead you to the palace of the fairies, which, though hard by, has never been seen by mortal eyes because of the thick clouds that surround it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	surround	surround	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **permit** | must | you | me |  |  |  | first *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lead** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  | the palace of the fairies |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present · perfect · passive | mortal eyes |  |  |  |  | because the thick clouds; hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **surround** | present | the thick clouds | crab |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |

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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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