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title: The Man-Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our lic… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Man-Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our license under the great seal. Who acts: Man Mountain, our. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 22

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The Man-Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our license under the great seal.

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**Who acts:** Man Mountain, our · **What happens:** not depart, license · **To what, where:** dominions, great seal

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man Mountain, our), 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:pg503:45:22
# text = The Man-Mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our license under the great seal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	license	license	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **depart** | shall | the Man Mountain |  |  | our dominions |  | without our license under the great seal | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dominion=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **license** |  | our |  |  | the great seal |  |  | nom license «communication transitive»: poss=agent under=place |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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