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title: To smooth away your wrinkles, we would gladly shed our blood, for ou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To smooth away your wrinkles, we would gladly shed our blood, for our lives are bound up in yours; and this you know.’ Who acts: we, this. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 12

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To smooth away your wrinkles, we would gladly shed our blood, for our lives are bound up in yours; and this you know.’

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**Who acts:** we, this · **What happens:** smooth away, shed, bind up, know · **To what, where:** wrinkles, blood, lives

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (we, this), 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:pg641:38:12
# text = To smooth away your wrinkles, we would gladly shed our blood, for our lives are bound up in yours; and this you know.’
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	smooth	smooth	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	away	away	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	shed	shed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smooth away** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | your wrinkles |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wrinkle=Patient |
| 2 | **shed** | would | we | our blood |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |
| 3 | **bind up** | present · passive |  | our lives |  |  |  | in yours | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in your=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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