The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 98
‘I will not let it go free,’ cried Manawyddan.
Who acts: I, reptile · What happens: not let, go, cry · To what, where: reptile · Speech: someone speaks here
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, reptile), 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 | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | future | I | reptile | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | reptile not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 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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