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title: ‘Will silver or gold bring thy freedom, or only battle and fighting?… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Will silver or gold bring thy freedom, or only battle and fighting?’ asked Gwrhyr again. Who acts: silver. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 132

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‘Will silver or gold bring thy freedom, or only battle and fighting?’ asked Gwrhyr again.

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**Who acts:** silver · **What happens:** bring, ask · **To what, where:** freedom, Gwrhyr · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver), 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:pg3454:39:132
# text = ‘Will silver or gold bring thy freedom, or only battle and fighting?’ asked Gwrhyr again.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | future | silver or gold | thy freedom or battle and fighting |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Gwrhyr |  | again |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent gwrhyr=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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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