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title: He would have a cage built as a prison for him, and everyone would t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He would have a cage built as a prison for him, and everyone would talk of it, for in other countries thieves were put in prison, and it was long indeed since any king had used a cage. Who acts: man, everyone, cage. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 62

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He would have a cage built as a prison for him, and everyone would talk of it, for in other countries thieves were put in prison, and it was long indeed since any king had used a cage.

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**Who acts:** man, everyone, cage · **What happens:** have, build, talk, put, be, use · **To what, where:** cage, thieves, other countries, king

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, everyone, cage), 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:pg2435:20:62
# text = He would have a cage built as a prison for him, and everyone would talk of it, for in other countries thieves were put in prison, and it was long indeed since any king had used a cage.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
24	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | man | a cage |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | a cage *not said here* |  |  |  | as a prison for man | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **talk** | would | everyone |  |  |  |  | of prison | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** | past · passive |  | thieves |  | other countries |  | in prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in country=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | cage |  |  |  |  | indeed, long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **use** | past · perfect · passive |  | any king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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