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title: You see there are a great many suits of clothes hanging on the wall,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You see there are a great many suits of clothes hanging on the wall, and you may wear any you please; but remember that you are never to open this locked door. Who acts: You, great many suits, clothes. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree a
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 106

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You see there are a great many suits of clothes hanging on the wall, and you may wear any you please; but remember that you are never to open this locked door.

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**Who acts:** You, great many suits, clothes · **What happens:** see, be, hang, wear, remember, not be · **To what, where:** wall, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, great many suits, clothes), 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:pg3027:38:106
# text = You see there are a great many suits of clothes hanging on the wall, and you may wear any you please; but remember that you are never to open this locked door.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	nmod	_	_
11	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	reparandum	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
22	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
33	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **does** | present | a great many suits of clothes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund | clothes *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
| 4 | **wear** | may | you | you |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent you=Source |
| 5 | **remember** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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