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title: “I am so strong that no one can bind me, and so swift that not even… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am so strong that no one can bind me, and so swift that not even an arrow can catch me. Who acts: reindeer, one, arrow. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 59

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“I am so strong that no one can bind me, and so swift that not even an arrow can catch me.

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**Who acts:** reindeer, one, arrow · **What happens:** be, bind, swift, catch · **To what, where:** reindeer

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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 (reindeer, one, arrow), 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:pg3282:21:59
# text = “I am so strong that no one can bind me, and so swift that not even an arrow can catch me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	swift	swift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the reindeer *= reindeer* |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bind** *in a quote* | can | no one | the reindeer *= reindeer* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **swift** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **catch** *in a quote* | can | a arrow | the reindeer *= reindeer* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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