The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 57
But no leash in the world can hold Drudwyn save the leash of Cant Ewin, and no collar will hold the leash except the collar of Canhastyr.’
Who acts: leash, Drudwyn, collar · What happens: hold, save · To what, where: leash
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 (leash, Drudwyn, collar), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 hold | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 leash | det |
| 3 | leash | leash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leash | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hold | aux |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | Drudwyn | Drudwyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 save | nsubj |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hold | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leash | det |
| 12 | leash | leash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Cant | case |
| 14 | Cant | Cant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 leash | nmod |
| 15 | Ewin | Ewin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Cant | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hold | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hold | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 collar | det |
| 19 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hold | aux |
| 21 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hold | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 leash | det |
| 23 | leash | leash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | obj |
| 24 | except | except | ADP | _ | 26 collar | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 collar | det |
| 26 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Canhastyr | case |
| 28 | Canhastyr | Canhastyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 collar | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hold | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | can | no leash in the world | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | Drudwyn | the leash of Cant | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leash=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | future | no collar | the leash | except the collar of Canhastyr | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leash=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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