--- title: ‘I am held captive in this cave on account of the knight who married… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I am held captive in this cave on account of the knight who married the countess and left her, for the pages spoke ill of him, and because I told them that no man living was his equal they dragged me here and said I should die unless he should come to deliver me by a certain day, and that is no fur --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/103/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/) / 103 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 103 ‘I am held captive in this cave on account of the knight who married the countess and left her, for the pages spoke ill of him, and because I told them that no man living was his equal they dragged me here and said I should die unless he should come to deliver me by a certain day, and that is no further than the day after to-morrow. **Who acts:** knight, pages, I, man, Owen, that · **What happens:** hold, marry, leave, speak, tell, live · **To what, where:** I, cave, countess, pages, me, knight · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, pages, I, man), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:31:103 # text = ‘I am held captive in this cave on account of the knight who married the countess and left her, for the pages spoke ill of him, and because I told them that no man living was his equal they dragged me here and said I should die unless he should come to deliver me by a certain day, and that is no further than the day after to-morrow. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 captive captive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 married marry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 countess countess NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 26 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 38 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 ccomp _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 44 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 48 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 ccomp _ _ 51 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 52 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 advcl _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 deliver deliver VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 xcomp _ _ 57 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 by by ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 64 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 67 nsubj _ _ 65 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 67 cop _ _ 66 no no ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 67 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 68 than than ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ _ 71 after after ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 72 to to ADP IN _ 74 case _ SpaceAfter=No 73 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 72 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 74 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 70 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present · passive | | I | | this cave on account of the knight | | captive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cave=Location | | 2 | **marry** | past | the knight | the countess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countess=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | past | | countess | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the pages | | | | | ill *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | | pages *= page* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **live** | gerund | no man *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | no man | | | | | equal *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **drag** | past | pages *= page* | me | | here | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | pages *= page* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **die** | should | I | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 11 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | Owen | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | Owen *not said here* | me | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 13 | **not** **is** | present | that | | | | day | far *property* | tree rules | | 14 | **account** | | | the knight | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/104/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/)