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title: ‘If thou wilt not set it free for this, I will give thee all the hor… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If thou wilt not set it free for this, I will give thee all the horses thou seest and the seven loads of baggage.’ Who acts: thou, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 126

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‘If thou wilt not set it free for this, I will give thee all the horses thou seest and the seven loads of baggage.’

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**Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** not set, give, see · **To what, where:** pound, horses, thee

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 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:pg3454:35:126
# text = ‘If thou wilt not set it free for this, I will give thee all the horses thou seest and the seven loads of baggage.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	iobj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seest	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	baggage	baggage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **set** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | thou | pound |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
| 2 | **give** | future | I | all horses and the seven loads of baggage | thee |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | thou | all horses and the seven loads of baggage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |

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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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