The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 133
‘By fighting alone shall I be set free,’ said Mabon.
Who acts: I, Mabon · What happens: fight, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mabon), 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 | _ | 3 fighting | punct |
| 2 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 fighting | mark |
| 3 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 fighting | advmod |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 free | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 free | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 free | cop |
| 8 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 free | amod |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fighting | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fighting | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fighting | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mabon | Mabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | gerund | alone property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | shall | I | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mabon | 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 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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