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title: "Hold in," said one; "beware lest my sheep leap over the bridge." — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hold in," said one; "beware lest my sheep leap over the bridge." Who acts: you, one, my. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 31

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"Hold in," said one; "beware lest my sheep leap over the bridge."

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**Who acts:** you, one, my · **What happens:** hold in, say, beware, leap · **To what, where:** bridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, my), 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:pg14241:33:31
# text = "Hold in," said one; "beware lest my sheep leap over the bridge."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sheep	sheep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold in** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **beware** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the bridge |  | lest my sheep leap | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **leap** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom leap «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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