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title: ‘By my troth!’ cried Owen, ‘I can no more open it from here than tho… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘By my troth!’ cried Owen, ‘I can no more open it from here than thou art able to set me free.’ Who acts: Owen. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 82

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‘By my troth!’ cried Owen, ‘I can no more open it from here than thou art able to set me free.’

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**Who acts:** Owen · **What happens:** cry, set · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen), 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:pg3454:30:82
# text = ‘By my troth!’ cried Owen, ‘I can no more open it from here than thou art able to set me free.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	troth	troth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Owen |  |  |  |  | by my troth | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by troth=Location |
| 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | Owen *not said here* | me |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |

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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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