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title: Now the lass was taken to York to be hanged; she was brought out on… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the lass was taken to York to be hanged; she was brought out on the scaffold, and the hangman said, "Now, lass, thou must hang by the neck till thou be'st dead." Who acts: hangman, thou. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, with its depende
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 19

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Now the lass was taken to York to be hanged; she was brought out on the scaffold, and the hangman said, "Now, lass, thou must hang by the neck till thou be'st dead."

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**Who acts:** hangman, thou · **What happens:** take, hange, bring out, say, hang · **To what, where:** lass, York, scaffold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hangman, thou), 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:pg14241:16:19
# text = Now the lass was taken to York to be hanged; she was brought out on the scaffold, and the hangman said, "Now, lass, thou must hang by the neck till thou be'st dead."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hangman	hangman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	till	till	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
38	be'st	be'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | the lass | York |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to york=Destination |
| 2 | **hange** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring out** | past · passive |  | York |  | the scaffold |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the hangman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **hang** *in a quote* | must | thou |  |  |  | till be'st; now | by the neck; lass *vocative* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by neck=Location |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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