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title: ‘Time hangs very heavily on my hands when I’m all alone in the wood;… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Time hangs very heavily on my hands when I’m all alone in the wood; I must try and find a companion.’ Who acts: Time, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 22

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‘Time hangs very heavily on my hands when I’m all alone in the wood; I must try and find a companion.’

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**Who acts:** Time, I · **What happens:** hang, be, try, find · **To what, where:** hands, wood, companion

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time, 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:pg540:50:22
# text = ‘Time hangs very heavily on my hands when I’m all alone in the wood; I must try and find a companion.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present | Time |  |  | my hands |  | heavily *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location |
| 2 | **be** | present | I |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 3 | **try** | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a companion |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Topic |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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