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title: Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front plates two hol… — Just so stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front plates two holes more, I’ll try that fascinating bend that you say is so easy. Who acts: I, you, fascinating bend. A sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 105

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Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front plates two holes more, I’ll try that fascinating bend that you say is so easy.

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**Who acts:** I, you, fascinating bend · **What happens:** trouble, unlace, try, say, be · **To what, where:** back, fascinating bend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, fascinating bend), 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:pg2781:8:105
# text = Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front plates two holes more, I’ll try that fascinating bend that you say is so easy.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	unlace	unlace	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trouble** *a condition, not said to happen* | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **unlace** | to-infinitive | you | my back and front plates  two holes |  |  | now |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
| 3 | **try** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | that fascinating bend |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present | that fascinating bend |  |  |  |  | easy *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:** «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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