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title: 'The Lion Fairy keeps a store of bees in a secret place near to the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'The Lion Fairy keeps a store of bees in a secret place near to the bottom of the ten thousand steps leading into the upper world. Who acts: Lion Fairy, thousand steps. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 88

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'The Lion Fairy keeps a store of bees in a secret place near to the bottom of the ten thousand steps leading into the upper world.

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**Who acts:** Lion Fairy, thousand steps · **What happens:** keep, lead · **To what, where:** store, secret place, upper world

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion Fairy, thousand steps), 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:pg3027:27:88
# text = 'The Lion Fairy keeps a store of bees in a secret place near to the bottom of the ten thousand steps leading into the upper world.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	near	near	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the Lion Fairy | a store of bees |  | a secret place to the bottom of the thousand steps |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent store=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | the thousand steps *not said here* |  |  | the upper world |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=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 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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