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title: ‘Allow me, my father, to go and give alms to the beggars.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Allow me, my father, to go and give alms to the beggars.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 128

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‘Allow me, my father, to go and give alms to the beggars.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** allow, go, give · **To what, where:** me, alms, beggars

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg540:13:128
# text = ‘Allow me, my father, to go and give alms to the beggars.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Allow	allow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	alms	alm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | my father *vocative* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  | alms | the beggars |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to beggar=Recipient |

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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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