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title: But with the first notes, the leg of every man in the crowd was lift… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But with the first notes, the leg of every man in the crowd was lifted high, and they danced to the sound of the music the whole day till darkness fell, and there was no light to hang the musician by. Who acts: legs, darkness, light. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 61

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But with the first notes, the leg of every man in the crowd was lifted high, and they danced to the sound of the music the whole day till darkness fell, and there was no light to hang the musician by.

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**Who acts:** legs, darkness, light · **What happens:** lift, dance, fall, be, hang · **To what, where:** leg, sound, whole day, musician

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, darkness, light), 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:pg2435:14:61
# text = But with the first notes, the leg of every man in the crowd was lifted high, and they danced to the sound of the music the whole day till darkness fell, and there was no light to hang the musician by.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past · passive |  | the leg of every man in the crowd |  |  |  | with the first notes; high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  | the sound of the music | day |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory |
| 3 | **fall** | past | darkness | the whole day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient day=Result |
| 4 | **be** | past | no light |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** | to-infinitive | no light *not said here* | the musician |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Patient |

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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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