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title: “I will fasten this to your leg,” said he, “in the same way as it is… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will fasten this to your leg,” said he, “in the same way as it is fastened to mine, and we must both pull as hard as we can. Who acts: whale, same way, we. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 60

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“I will fasten this to your leg,” said he, “in the same way as it is fastened to mine, and we must both pull as hard as we can.

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**Who acts:** whale, same way, we · **What happens:** fasten, say, pull · **To what, where:** this, way, whale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale, same way, 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:pg3282:35:60
# text = “I will fasten this to your leg,” said he, “in the same way as it is fastened to mine, and we must both pull as hard as we can.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fasten	fasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	both	both	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **fasten** *in a quote* | future | whale | this |  |  |  | to your leg | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent this=Patient to leg=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | whale |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fasten** *in a quote* | present · passive | the same way *not said here* | way | whale |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to my=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **pull** *in a quote* | must | we |  |  |  |  | both, hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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