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title: Have you not just heard me say that death has no power either over m… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you not just heard me say that death has no power either over myself or any of my kindred till that great tree is rooted up? Who acts: you, me, death. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 83

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Have you not just heard me say that death has no power either over myself or any of my kindred till that great tree is rooted up?

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**Who acts:** you, me, death · **What happens:** have, not hear, say, root up · **To what, where:** me, power, great tree · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, death), 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:pg2435:18:83
# text = Have you not just heard me say that death has no power either over myself or any of my kindred till that great tree is rooted up?
1	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	rooted	root	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | past | you | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | present | death | no power |  |  |  | over myself | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 5 | **root up** | present · passive |  | that great tree |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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