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title: “Oh, why does not some wild beast devour me?” he cried to himself; “… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, why does not some wild beast devour me?” he cried to himself; “never, never, can I go again amongst my fellow-men! Who acts: wild beast, beast. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 11

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“Oh, why does not some wild beast devour me?” he cried to himself; “never, never, can I go again amongst my fellow-men!

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**Who acts:** wild beast, beast · **What happens:** devour, cry, not go · **To what, where:** beast, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild beast, beast), 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:pg2435:12:11
# text = “Oh, why does not some wild beast devour me?” he cried to himself; “never, never, can I go again amongst my fellow-men!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devour** *in a quote* | present · do-support | some wild beast | beast |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | beast |  | mind |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | can | beast |  |  |  | again | amongst my fellow men | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme amongst man=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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