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title: So the gallows was built upon a high platform, and the fisher’s son… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the gallows was built upon a high platform, and the fisher’s son mounted the steps up to it, and turned at the top to make the speech that was expected from every doomed man, innocent or guilt. Who acts: son. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, with
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 52

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So the gallows was built upon a high platform, and the fisher’s son mounted the steps up to it, and turned at the top to make the speech that was expected from every doomed man, innocent or guilt.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** build, mount up, turn, make, expect, doom · **To what, where:** gallows, steps, fisher, top, speech

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg3454:17:52
# text = So the gallows was built upon a high platform, and the fisher’s son mounted the steps up to it, and turned at the top to make the speech that was expected from every doomed man, innocent or guilt.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
37	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | the gallows |  |  |  | upon a high platform | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **mount up** | past | the fisher's son | the steps | fisher |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the fisher's son *not said here* |  |  | the top |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at top=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the fisher's son *not said here* | the speech |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product |
| 5 | **expect** | past · passive |  | the speech |  |  |  | from every doomed man | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **doom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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