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title: “I have brought him from the gallows,” answered the king; rather vex… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have brought him from the gallows,” answered the king; rather vexed at his daughter’s words, as never before had she consented to speak to any man. Who acts: king, princess, daughter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree a
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 43

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“I have brought him from the gallows,” answered the king; rather vexed at his daughter’s words, as never before had she consented to speak to any man.

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**Who acts:** king, princess, daughter · **What happens:** bring, answer, vex, have, consent, speak · **To what, where:** coach, gallows, words, princess · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, princess, daughter), 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:pg2435:7:43
# text = “I have brought him from the gallows,” answered the king; rather vexed at his daughter’s words, as never before had she consented to speak to any man.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	vexed	vex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the king *= king* | coach |  | the gallows |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from gallows=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vex** | past | the king *not said here* |  |  | coach's daughter's words |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | past | the king *not said here* | princess |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **consent** | participle | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to any man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **word** |  | coach's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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