--- title: Will you be quiet!” screamed the lady of the house, covering the cag… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Will you be quiet!” screamed the lady of the house, covering the cage with an embroidered white pocket handkerchief. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/114/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Shoes of Fortune, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/) / 114 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 114 Will you be quiet!” screamed the lady of the house, covering the cage with an embroidered white pocket handkerchief. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, scream, cover, embroider · **To what, where:** lady, cage This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg1597:8:114 # text = Will you be quiet!” screamed the lady of the house, covering the cage with an embroidered white pocket handkerchief. 1 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 covering cover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 embroidered embroider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 20 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | future | you | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | | the lady of the house | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | | 3 | **cover** *in a quote* | gerund | | the cage | | | | with a embroidered white pocket handkerchief | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cage=Destination with handkerchief=Theme | | 4 | **embroider** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/113/) - next →: [The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/1/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/)