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title: “I am Shepherd Paul,” said the young man, “and I have come to fight… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am Shepherd Paul,” said the young man, “and I have come to fight you, and as I am in a hurry we had better begin at once.” Who acts: Shepherd Paul, we, hurry. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 68

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“I am Shepherd Paul,” said the young man, “and I have come to fight you, and as I am in a hurry we had better begin at once.”

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**Who acts:** Shepherd Paul, we, hurry · **What happens:** be, say, come, fight, have, begin · **To what, where:** Shepherd Paul, you, hurry · **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 (Shepherd Paul, we, hurry), 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:pg2435:31:68
# text = “I am Shepherd Paul,” said the young man, “and I have come to fight you, and as I am in a hurry we had better begin at once.”
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	Shepherd	Shepherd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	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 | Shepherd Paul *= paul* | Shepherd Paul |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Shepherd Paul |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Shepherd Paul *= paul* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Shepherd Paul *= paul* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Shepherd Paul *= paul* |  |  | a hurry |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | we | a hurry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **begin** *in a quote* | infinitive | a hurry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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