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title: No one except the King may go in or out, for it is prophesied that s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No one except the King may go in or out, for it is prophesied that she will marry a common soldier, and the King cannot submit to that.’ Who acts: one, Witch, King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 76

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No one except the King may go in or out, for it is prophesied that she will marry a common soldier, and the King cannot submit to that.’

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**Who acts:** one, Witch, King · **What happens:** go, prophesy, marry, not submit · **To what, where:** castle, common soldier

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Witch, King), 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:pg640:46:76
# text = No one except the King may go in or out, for it is prophesied that she will marry a common soldier, and the King cannot submit to that.’
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	except	except	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	prophesied	prophesy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | may | no one except the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **prophesy** | present · passive |  | castle |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | future | Witch | a common soldier |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **submit** | can | the King |  |  |  |  | to that | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to that=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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