The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 71

“They want to hang me,” answered the young man; “the gallows are all ready and the hangman is only waiting for me to stop playing.”

Who acts: clothes, young man, gallows, hangman, old magician · What happens: want, hang, answer, be, wait, stop · To what, where: young man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, young man, gallows, hangman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hang	mark
5	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hang	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 want	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gallows	det
16	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ready	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	cop
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 ready	advmod
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 want	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 waiting	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hangman	det
22	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waiting	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 waiting	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 waiting	advmod
25	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 ready	conj
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 stop	mark
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 stop	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stop	mark
29	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 waiting	advcl
30	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 stop	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	clothes			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hang not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	clothes not said here	the young man = man		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the young man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	the gallows		all, ready property	tree rules
5	wait in a quote	present · progressive	the hangman			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stop in a quote	to-infinitive	the old magician = magician			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	play in a quote	gerund	the old magician = magician not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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