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title: “See, I will lay myself down in this coffin, and will then tell you… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “See, I will lay myself down in this coffin, and will then tell you why I laughed, for as soon as I have told you I shall surely die.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 66

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“See, I will lay myself down in this coffin, and will then tell you why I laughed, for as soon as I have told you I shall surely die.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** see, lay down, tell, laugh, die · **To what, where:** myself, coffin, you · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg2435:6:66
# text = “See, I will lay myself down in this coffin, and will then tell you why I laughed, for as soon as I have told you I shall surely die.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lay down** *in a quote* | future | I | myself |  | this coffin |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in coffin=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | you *not said here* |  | you |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **laugh** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | I |  | you |  |  | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **die** *in a quote* | shall | I |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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