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title: ‘Unfasten those horses that are tied up, and let loose those people… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Unfasten those horses that are tied up, and let loose those people that are bound. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 186

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‘Unfasten those horses that are tied up, and let loose those people that are bound.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** unfasten, tie up, let, bind · **To what, where:** horses, loose people

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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:pg641:15:186
# text = ‘Unfasten those horses that are tied up, and let loose those people that are bound.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Unfasten	unfasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unfasten** | imperative | you *not said here* | that horses |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **tie up** | present · passive |  | that horses |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | that loose people |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **bind** | present · passive |  | that loose people |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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