--- title: ‘I will not set her free,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘till thou swear tha… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I will not set her free,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘till thou swear that no vengeance shall be taken for his, either upon Pryderi, or upon Rhiannon, or on me.’ Who acts: I, thou. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou), 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:pg3454:36:1 # text = ‘I will not set her free,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘till thou swear that no vengeance shall be taken for his, either upon Pryderi, or upon Rhiannon, or on me.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Manawyddan Manawyddan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 till till SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 swear swear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 vengeance vengeance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 either either CCONJ CC _ 28 cc:preconj _ _ 27 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Pryderi Pryderi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Rhiannon Rhiannon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **set** | future | I | her free | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | Manawyddan | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **swear** | present | thou | | | | | on me | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **take** | shall · passive | | no vengeance | | | | for Manawyddan's Pryderi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for pryderi=Beneficiary | 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: [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/35/144/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/2/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/)