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title: anon — Early Modern English dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «anon» in the Early Modern English dictionary: Soon, shortly, or straight away. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# anon

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**Who acts:** Anon · **What happens:** catch, give, touch, think, be · **To what, where:** word, touch, face, colour, deep expression · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«anon» in the Early Modern English dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [anon in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/anon.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Soon, shortly, or straight away.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:anon:m1:1
# text = Soon, shortly, or straight away.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Anon he caught the word Peter.

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From Peter Pan.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:anon:x1:1
# text = Anon he caught the word Peter.
1	Anon	Anon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Anon | the word |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face.

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From Peter Pan.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:anon:x2:1
# text = Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face.
1	Ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cigar	cigar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | anon | a touch of colour | light's face |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent touch=Theme to face=Recipient |
| 2 | **touch** |  |  | colour |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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Anon I thought of the mourning mother beneath the cross at Golgotha, so deep was the expression of pain.

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From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:emode:anon:x3:1
# text = Anon I thought of the mourning mother beneath the cross at Golgotha, so deep was the expression of pain.
1	Anon	Anon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Golgotha	Golgotha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Anon |  |  |  |  | of the mourning mother beneath the cross at Golgotha | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the deep expression |  |  |  | of pain | tree rules |

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**Text:** the Early Modern English dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova; its examples quote public-domain texts. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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