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title: "Please your Majesty," said the captain, "we hanged that strolling v… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Please your Majesty," said the captain, "we hanged that strolling vagabond, but here he is back again as well as ever." Who acts: Majesty, we. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 147

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"Please your Majesty," said the captain, "we hanged that strolling vagabond, but here he is back again as well as ever."

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**Who acts:** Majesty, we · **What happens:** say, hange, stroll, be · **To what, where:** captain, vagabond · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, 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:pg7885:20:147
# text = "Please your Majesty," said the captain, "we hanged that strolling vagabond, but here he is back again as well as ever."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hanged	hange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	strolling	stroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	vagabond	vagabond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	ccomp	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	27	cc	_	_
25	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	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 | your Majesty | the captain |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent captain=Topic |
| 2 | **hange** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stroll** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* | vagabond |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vagabond=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Majesty |  |  |  |  | again *property* | 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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