--- title: "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." Who acts: hangman, thee. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, 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/pg14241/16/23/) [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/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/) / 23 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 23 "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." **Who acts:** hangman, thee · **What happens:** bring, come, set, see, hang · **To what, where:** golden ball, thee, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, thee), 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:pg14241:16:23 # text = "I've neither brought thy golden ball Nor come to set thee free, But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 neither neither ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 Nor Nor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 obj _ _ 14 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 But but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 22 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 Upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 gallows gallows NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | hangman | thy golden ball | | | | neither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | hangman *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **set** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | hangman *not said here* | thee | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient thou=Result | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | hangman | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | hangman *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **hang** *in a quote* | past | thee | | | this gallows's tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/24/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)