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title: Another time permission might have been refused him, for the farmer… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Another time permission might have been refused him, for the farmer was no lover of humble folk, but now he gave the elder brother leave to come in, pointing out a wooden chair where he could sit. Who acts: farmer. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, w
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 75

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Another time permission might have been refused him, for the farmer was no lover of humble folk, but now he gave the elder brother leave to come in, pointing out a wooden chair where he could sit.

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**Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** refuse, be, give, leave, come in, point out · **To what, where:** time permission, elder brother, wooden chair

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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:pg3454:19:75
# text = Another time permission might have been refused him, for the farmer was no lover of humble folk, but now he gave the elder brother leave to come in, pointing out a wooden chair where he could sit.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	iobj	_	_
27	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | might · perfect · passive |  | another time permission |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the farmer |  |  |  |  | for no lover; of humble folk | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | farmer |  | the elder brother |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come in** | to-infinitive | farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **point out** | gerund | farmer *not said here* | a wooden chair |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Patient |
| 7 | **sit** | could | farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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