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title: “I am Iron Kneader, and should like to fight Shepherd Paul,” answere… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am Iron Kneader, and should like to fight Shepherd Paul,” answered he. Who acts: I. 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.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 39

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“I am Iron Kneader, and should like to fight Shepherd Paul,” answered he.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, like, fight, answer · **To what, where:** Iron Kneader, Shepherd, Paul · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2435:31:39
# text = “I am Iron Kneader, and should like to fight Shepherd Paul,” answered he.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Kneader	Kneader	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	like	like	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | Iron Kneader |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Paul |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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