The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 101

‘I will not let it go free, neither will I sell it.’

Who acts: I, pound · What happens: not let, go, sell · To what, where: pound

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pound), 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	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sell	punct
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 sell	cc:preconj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sell	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sell	nsubj
13	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sell	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not let	future	I	pound		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	pound not said here		free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sell	future	I	pound		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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