The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 129

'I sha'n't let my prisoners go as easily as all that!' she said. '

Who acts: I, prisoners, witch · What happens: not let, go, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prisoners, witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
3	sha'	sha'	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prisoners	nmod:poss
7	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 let	xcomp
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 easily	advmod
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 that	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 that	det:predet
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 go	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not let		I		tree rules
2	go	present	my prisoners	as that; easily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	witch		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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