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title: The Editor has to thank his friend, M. Charles Marelles, for permiss… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Editor has to thank his friend, M. Charles Marelles, for permission to reproduce his versions of the ‘Pied Piper,’ of ‘Drakestail,’ and of ‘Little Golden Hood’ from the French, and M. Henri Carnoy for the same privilege in regard to ‘The Six Sillies’ from _La Tradition_. Who acts: Editor. A sent
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# The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 11

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The Editor has to thank his friend, M. Charles Marelles, for permission to reproduce his versions of the ‘Pied Piper,’ of ‘Drakestail,’ and of ‘Little Golden Hood’ from the French, and M. Henri Carnoy for the same privilege in regard to ‘The Six Sillies’ from \_La Tradition\_.

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**Who acts:** Editor · **What happens:** have, thank, reproduce, pi · **To what, where:** friend, versions

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Editor), 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:pg540:1:11
# text = The Editor has to thank his friend, M. Charles Marelles, for permission to reproduce his versions of the ‘Pied Piper,’ of ‘Drakestail,’ and of ‘Little Golden Hood’ from the French, and M. Henri Carnoy for the same privilege in regard to ‘The Six Sillies’ from _La Tradition_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Editor	Editor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	Marelles	Marelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Pied	pi	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	Piper	Piper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	Golden	Golden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Henri	Henri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	Carnoy	Carnoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	Sillies	silly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	Tradition	Tradition	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Editor |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | to-infinitive | the Editor *not said here* |  | Editor's friend |  |  | for permission | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent friend=Theme for permission=Attribute |
| 3 | **reproduce** | to-infinitive | the Editor *not said here* | Editor's versions of the Pied Piper |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 4 | **pi** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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