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title: I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason twi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the ends into a hook. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 7

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I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the ends into a hook.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** treble, make, twist, bend · **To what, where:** cable, packthread, three, ends, hook

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg503:46:7
# text = I trebled the cable to make it stronger, and for the same reason twisted three of the iron bars together, bending the ends into a hook.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trebled	treble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	twisted	twist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treble** | past | I | the cable |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cable=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | packthread |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **twist** | past | I *not said here* | three of the iron bars |  |  |  | for the same reason; together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
| 4 | **bend** | gerund | I *not said here* | the ends |  | a hook |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent end=Material into hook=Product |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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