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title: "Aye, I have brought thy golden ball And come to set thee free, I ha… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Aye, I have brought thy golden ball And come to set thee free, I have not 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.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 37

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"Aye, I have brought thy golden ball And come to set thee free, I have not come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree."

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**Who acts:** hangman, thee · **What happens:** bring, come, set, not come, see, hang · **To what, where:** golden ball, thee, tree · **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, thee), 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:pg14241:16:37
# text = "Aye, I have brought thy golden ball And come to set thee free, I have not come to see thee hung Upon this gallows-tree."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	_
15	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | hangman | thy golden ball |  |  |  |  | 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 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | present | 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 |

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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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