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title: ‘Leave off,’ shouted Moti, seizing his staff; ‘if you don’t let my h… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Leave off,’ shouted Moti, seizing his staff; ‘if you don’t let my horse alone I’ll crack your skulls! you thieves! Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 60

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‘Leave off,’ shouted Moti, seizing his staff; ‘if you don’t let my horse alone I’ll crack your skulls! you thieves!

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** leave off, shout, seize, not let, crack · **To what, where:** you, Moti, staff, horse, skulls

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg3454:15:60
# text = ‘Leave off,’ shouted Moti, seizing his staff; ‘if you don’t let my horse alone I’ll crack your skulls! you thieves!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	skulls	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
29	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave off** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme thief=Attribute |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* | Moti |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moti=Topic |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund | you *not said here* | Moti's staff |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | my horse |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **crack** | future | I | your skulls |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skull=Theme |

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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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