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title: ‘By fighting alone shall I be set free,’ said Mabon. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘By fighting alone shall I be set free,’ said Mabon. Who acts: I, Mabon. 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 133

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‘By fighting alone shall I be set free,’ said Mabon.

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**Who acts:** I, Mabon · **What happens:** fight, be, say · **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 (I, Mabon), 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:pg3454:39:133
# text = ‘By fighting alone shall I be set free,’ said Mabon.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	ccomp	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mabon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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