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title: ‘I shall seize Hercules on the coast of Asia,’ said Lasse, ‘and then… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I shall seize Hercules on the coast of Asia,’ said Lasse, ‘and then row home again to Europe.’ Who acts: I, Lasse. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 67

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‘I shall seize Hercules on the coast of Asia,’ said Lasse, ‘and then row home again to Europe.’

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**Who acts:** I, Lasse · **What happens:** seize, say, row · **To what, where:** Hercules, coast, Europe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lasse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:14:67
# text = ‘I shall seize Hercules on the coast of Asia,’ said Lasse, ‘and then row home again to Europe.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | shall | I | Hercules |  | the coast of Asia |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hercules=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lasse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **row** | infinitive |  |  |  | Europe | then; again | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to europe=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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