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title: He shall not presume to come into our metropolis without our express… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He shall not presume to come into our metropolis without our express order, at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours’ warning to keep within doors. Who acts: Mountain, inhabitants, our. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 24

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He shall not presume to come into our metropolis without our express order, at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours’ warning to keep within doors.

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**Who acts:** Mountain, inhabitants, our · **What happens:** not presume, come, have, keep, order · **To what, where:** metropolis

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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 (Mountain, inhabitants, 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:pg503:45:24
# text = He shall not presume to come into our metropolis without our express order, at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours’ warning to keep within doors.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	presume	presume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	metropolis	metropolis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	express	express	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	SYM	SYM	_	25	punct	_	_
25	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	within	within	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **presume** | shall | Mountain |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Mountain *not said here* |  |  | our metropolis |  | without our express order | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into metropolis=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | shall | the inhabitants |  |  |  | hour; time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the inhabitants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within doors | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **order** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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