---
title: “I am Stone Crusher,” answered the man, and the greatest wish of my… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am Stone Crusher,” answered the man, and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.” Who acts: Stone, greatest wish, life. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/34/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/) / 34

# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 34

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“I am Stone Crusher,” answered the man, and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Stone, greatest wish, life · **What happens:** be, answer, wish · **To what, where:** Stone, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stone, greatest wish, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg2435:31:34
# text = “I am Stone Crusher,” answered the man, and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Crusher	Crusher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Stone | Stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Stone |  | the man |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the greatest wish of my life |  |  |  |  | with Shepherd Paul; wrestle *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** |  | my life |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/33/)
- next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/35/)
- ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/)