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title: Here is a ring that will admit you into the presence of the queen, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here is a ring that will admit you into the presence of the queen, and will likewise allow you to address unharmed the Lion Fairy, though she is the most terrible creature that ever existed.' Who acts: ring, Fairy, terrible creature. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, par
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 94

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Here is a ring that will admit you into the presence of the queen, and will likewise allow you to address unharmed the Lion Fairy, though she is the most terrible creature that ever existed.'

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**Who acts:** ring, Fairy, terrible creature · **What happens:** be, admit, allow, address, exist · **To what, where:** you, presence, unharmed Lion Fairy, terrible creature

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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 (ring, Fairy, terrible creature), 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:pg3027:28:94
# text = Here is a ring that will admit you into the presence of the queen, and will likewise allow you to address unharmed the Lion Fairy, though she is the most terrible creature that ever existed.'
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	unharmed	unharmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	33	advmod	_	_
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
37	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a ring |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | future | a ring | you |  | the presence of the queen |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **allow** | future | a ring *not said here* |  | you |  |  | likewise *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **address** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a ring *not said here* |  | the unharmed Lion Fairy |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Fairy | the terrible creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **exist** | past | the terrible creature |  |  |  | ever |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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