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title: It is she also who permits me to show my gratitude to you by grantin… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is she also who permits me to show my gratitude to you by granting whatever favour you may ask of me. Who acts: It, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 61

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It is she also who permits me to show my gratitude to you by granting whatever favour you may ask of me.

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**Who acts:** It, you · **What happens:** be, show, grant, ask · **To what, where:** gratitude, you, favour

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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:pg540:35:61
# text = It is she also who permits me to show my gratitude to you by granting whatever favour you may ask of me.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	permits	permit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	granting	grant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | permit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | my gratitude | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **grant** | gerund |  | whatever favour |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent favour=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | you | whatever favour *not said here* |  |  |  | of me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=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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