The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 28
I will not interfere with her liberty of choice.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not interfere
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 interfere | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 interfere | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 interfere | advmod |
| 4 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 liberty | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 liberty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 interfere | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 choice | case |
| 9 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 liberty | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 interfere | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 interfere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not interfere | future | I | with guest's liberty of choice | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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