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title: ‘Just weaving a chin strap to bind your jaws together, in case you m… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Just weaving a chin strap to bind your jaws together, in case you might wish to eat any more!’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 19

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‘Just weaving a chin strap to bind your jaws together, in case you might wish to eat any more!’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** weave, bind, wish, eat · **To what, where:** chin strap, jaws

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (you), 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:pg641:10:19
# text = ‘Just weaving a chin strap to bind your jaws together, in case you might wish to eat any more!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
14	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	fixed	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | gerund |  | a chin strap |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=Product |
| 2 | **bind** | to-infinitive |  | your jaws |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient |
| 3 | **wish** | might | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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