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title: 'Fate, who rules us all,' said the voice, 'forbids your leaving this… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Fate, who rules us all,' said the voice, 'forbids your leaving this place till the time shall come when certain things are fulfilled. Who acts: Fate, your, leaving. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 15

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'Fate, who rules us all,' said the voice, 'forbids your leaving this place till the time shall come when certain things are fulfilled.

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**Who acts:** Fate, your, leaving · **What happens:** rule, say, forbid, leave, come, fulfil · **To what, where:** us, voice, place, certain things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fate, your, leaving), 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:pg3027:28:15
# text = 'Fate, who rules us all,' said the voice, 'forbids your leaving this place till the time shall come when certain things are fulfilled.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	forbids	forbid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	29	mark	_	_
26	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** |  | Fate and rules | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the voice |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
| 3 | **forbid** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | your | this place |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | shall | leaving |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fulfil** | present · passive |  | certain things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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