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title: ‘Those gallows birds hang high in the air, and my camp will be on th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Those gallows birds hang high in the air, and my camp will be on the ground; we shall have nothing to do with each other.’ Who acts: gallows birds, camp, we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 87

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‘Those gallows birds hang high in the air, and my camp will be on the ground; we shall have nothing to do with each other.’

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**Who acts:** gallows birds, camp, we · **What happens:** hang, be, have, do · **To what, where:** ground, nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gallows birds, camp, 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:pg641:33:87
# text = ‘Those gallows birds hang high in the air, and my camp will be on the ground; we shall have nothing to do with each other.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	25	obl	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present | that gallows birds |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | future | my camp |  |  | the ground |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | shall | we | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with each | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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