--- title: So she took a very strong cord of silk, which she had prepared by th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So she took a very strong cord of silk, which she had prepared by the robber’s advice, and this time, though the prince pulled and tugged with all his might, he could not break the cord. Who acts: sister, advice, back. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 43 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 43 So she took a very strong cord of silk, which she had prepared by the robber’s advice, and this time, though the prince pulled and tugged with all his might, he could not break the cord. **Who acts:** sister, advice, back · **What happens:** take, prepare, pull, tug, not break · **To what, where:** strong cord, prince, cord This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, advice, back), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:5:43 # text = So she took a very strong cord of silk, which she had prepared by the robber’s advice, and this time, though the prince pulled and tugged with all his might, he could not break the cord. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tugged tug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 31 with with SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | sister | a strong cord of silk | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | | 2 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive | the robber's advice | a strong cord of silk | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **pull** | participle · passive | | the prince | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result | | 4 | **tug** | participle | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **break** | could | back | the cord | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/44/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)