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title: ‘No, that I may not do, for none can enter save the son of a king or… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, that I may not do, for none can enter save the son of a king or a pedlar who has goods to sell. Who acts: I, none, pedlar. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 46

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‘No, that I may not do, for none can enter save the son of a king or a pedlar who has goods to sell.

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**Who acts:** I, none, pedlar · **What happens:** not do, enter, save, have, sell · **To what, where:** son, goods

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (I, none, pedlar), 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:pg3454:38:46
# text = ‘No, that I may not do, for none can enter save the son of a king or a pedlar who has goods to sell.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enter** | can | none |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | none *not said here* | the son of a king or a pedlar |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | a pedlar | goods |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Patient |
| 5 | **sell** | to-infinitive | a pedlar *not said here* | goods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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