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title: ‘Ah, well! you may hang there for me, whether you are a hobgoblin or… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah, well! you may hang there for me, whether you are a hobgoblin or not,’ and on he went with his ox. Who acts: you, man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 60

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‘Ah, well! you may hang there for me, whether you are a hobgoblin or not,’ and on he went with his ox.

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** hang, be, go · **To what, where:** hobgoblin

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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:pg540:9:60
# text = ‘Ah, well! you may hang there for me, whether you are a hobgoblin or not,’ and on he went with his ox.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | may | you |  |  | there |  | for me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | you | a hobgoblin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  | with man's ox | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ox=Beneficiary |

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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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