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title: But no leash in the world can hold Drudwyn save the leash of Cant Ew… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But no leash in the world can hold Drudwyn save the leash of Cant Ewin, and no collar will hold the leash except the collar of Canhastyr.’ Who acts: leash, Drudwyn, collar. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 57

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But no leash in the world can hold Drudwyn save the leash of Cant Ewin, and no collar will hold the leash except the collar of Canhastyr.’

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**Who acts:** leash, Drudwyn, collar · **What happens:** hold, save · **To what, where:** leash

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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 (leash, Drudwyn, collar), 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:pg3454:39:57
# text = But no leash in the world can hold Drudwyn save the leash of Cant Ewin, and no collar will hold the leash except the collar of Canhastyr.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	leash	leash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	Drudwyn	Drudwyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	leash	leash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cant	Cant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Ewin	Ewin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leash	leash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	except	except	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Canhastyr	Canhastyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | can | no leash in the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | Drudwyn | the leash of Cant |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leash=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | future | no collar | the leash |  |  |  | except the collar of Canhastyr | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leash=Theme |

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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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