--- title: ‘I shall stay,’ replied the young man, ‘for I mean to set you free.’ — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I shall stay,’ replied the young man, ‘for I mean to set you free.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/) / 4 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 4 ‘I shall stay,’ replied the young man, ‘for I mean to set you free.’ **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** stay, reply, mean, set · **To what, where:** young man, you This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg5615:23:4 # text = ‘I shall stay,’ replied the young man, ‘for I mean to set you free.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | shall | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | I *not said here* | the young man | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | I | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/5/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/)