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title: ‘If you will loosen these cords I will tie you up with them as firml… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If you will loosen these cords I will tie you up with them as firmly as I can.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 77

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‘If you will loosen these cords I will tie you up with them as firmly as I can.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** loosen, tie up · **To what, where:** cords, you

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg5615:1:77
# text = ‘If you will loosen these cords I will tie you up with them as firmly as I can.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	loosen	loosen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **loosen** | future | you | this cords |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient |
| 2 | **tie up** | future | I | you |  |  |  | with cords *= cord*; firmly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient with they=Co-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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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