---
title: Let them be put in irons and lock them up in prison, whilst I think… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Let them be put in irons and lock them up in prison, whilst I think how I can best put them to death!” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, 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/pg2435/5/100/)

<!-- 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/) / 100

# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 100

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Let them be put in irons and lock them up in prison, whilst I think how I can best put them to death!”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** let, put, lock up, think · **To what, where:** goods, irons, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. 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.

<!-- .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:pg2435:5:100
# text = Let them be put in irons and lock them up in prison, whilst I think how I can best put them to death!”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	irons	iron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lock	lock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  | goods |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  | irons |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in iron=Destination |
| 3 | **lock up** | present |  | goods |  | prison |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | can | I | goods |  |  |  | to death; well *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

<!-- .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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/99/)
- next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/101/)
- ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/)