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title: “They want to hang me,” answered the young man; “the gallows are all… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “They want to hang me,” answered the young man; “the gallows are all ready and the hangman is only waiting for me to stop playing.” Who acts: clothes, young man, gallows, hangman. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 71

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“They want to hang me,” answered the young man; “the gallows are all ready and the hangman is only waiting for me to stop playing.”

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**Who acts:** clothes, young man, gallows, hangman, old magician · **What happens:** want, hang, answer, be, wait, stop · **To what, where:** young man · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, young man, gallows, hangman), 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:pg2435:14:71
# text = “They want to hang me,” answered the young man; “the gallows are all ready and the hangman is only waiting for me to stop playing.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hangman	hangman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | clothes |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | clothes *not said here* | the young man *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the gallows |  |  |  |  | all, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the hangman |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the old magician *= magician* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | the old magician *= magician* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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