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title: You are stronger than many men, but they will catch you and put rope… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You are stronger than many men, but they will catch you and put ropes round you, and you will have to work and to serve them all the days of your life.” Who acts: You, men. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 29

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You are stronger than many men, but they will catch you and put ropes round you, and you will have to work and to serve them all the days of your life.”

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**Who acts:** You, men · **What happens:** be, catch, put, have, work, serve · **To what, where:** you, ropes

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, men), 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:pg3282:21:29
# text = You are stronger than many men, but they will catch you and put ropes round you, and you will have to work and to serve them all the days of your life.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | than many men; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | future | men *= man* | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | ropes |  |  |  | round you | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rope=Goal |
| 4 | **have** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **serve** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | ropes *= rope* |  |  | day |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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