--- title: Hold me tight," she would say to the fingers, when they took her up,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Hold me tight," she would say to the fingers, when they took her up, "don't let me fall; if you do I shall never be found again, I am so very fine." Who acts: you, needle, fingers, me. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, needle, fingers, me), 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:pg27200:21:2 # text = Hold me tight," she would say to the fingers, when they took her up, "don't let me fall; if you do I shall never be found again, I am so very fine." 1 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 tight tight ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 very very ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | | | tight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | needle | | the fingers | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to finger=Recipient | | 3 | **take up** *in a quote* | past | fingers *= finger* | | needle | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 4 | **not** **let** | infinitive · do-support | fingers *= finger* *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fall** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **find** | shall · passive | | I | | | again | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 8 | **is** | present | I | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/21/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/21/3/) - ↑ back to [The Darning-needle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/21/)