The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 110

‘I will neither sell it nor set it free.’

Who acts: I · What happens: sell, set · To what, where: freedom

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), 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 sell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
4	neither	neither	ADV	_	5 sell	advmod
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sell	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 set	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	future	I	freedom				neither property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	set	infinitive	I not said here	freedom				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

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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