The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 77

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

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 loosen	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 loosen	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 loosen	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 loosen	aux
5	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 cords	det
7	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loosen	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tie	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tie	aux
10	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loosen	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tie	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 tie	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tie	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 firmly	advmod
16	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	10 tie	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 can	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 can	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 firmly	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loosen	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 loosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
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

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 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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