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title: ‘Rope, O rope!’ cried the voice again, ‘twine yourself round his nec… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Rope, O rope!’ cried the voice again, ‘twine yourself round his neck and strangle him.’ Who acts: Rope. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 88

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‘Rope, O rope!’ cried the voice again, ‘twine yourself round his neck and strangle him.’

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**Who acts:** Rope · **What happens:** cry, twine, strangle · **To what, where:** voice, yourself, neck, Désiré

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rope), 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:pg540:40:88
# text = ‘Rope, O rope!’ cried the voice again, ‘twine yourself round his neck and strangle him.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	twine	twine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Rope and rope | the voice |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
| 2 | **twine** | infinitive |  | yourself |  | Désiré's neck |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme round neck=Destination |
| 3 | **strangle** | infinitive |  | Désiré |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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