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title: One of them said to the others, ‘If we are caught, we shall be hange… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One of them said to the others, ‘If we are caught, we shall be hanged on the gallows; how shall we set about it?’ Who acts: One, we. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 3

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One of them said to the others, ‘If we are caught, we shall be hanged on the gallows; how shall we set about it?’

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**Who acts:** One, we · **What happens:** say, catch, hange, set · **To what, where:** we, gallows · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, we), 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:pg640:9:3
# text = One of them said to the others, ‘If we are caught, we shall be hanged on the gallows; how shall we set about it?’
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One of soldiers |  |  |  |  | to the others | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hange** | shall · passive |  | we |  | the gallows |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | about three | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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