--- title: He nodded, and pointed to Anne Lisbeth, crying out, "Hold fast! hold… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He nodded, and pointed to Anne Lisbeth, crying out, "Hold fast! hold fast! and then you may ride again in a nobleman's carriage, and forget your child." Who acts: legend, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend, 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:pg27200:5:152 # text = He nodded, and pointed to Anne Lisbeth, crying out, "Hold fast! hold fast! and then you may ride again in a nobleman's carriage, and forget your child." 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Anne Anne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ _ 8 Lisbeth Lisbeth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 17 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 18 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 nobleman nobleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 forget forget VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nod** | past | legend | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **point** | participle | legend *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | legend *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hold** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **ride** *in a quote* | may | you | | | a nobleman's carriage | then; again | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your child | | | | | 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 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/151/) - next →: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/153/) - ↑ back to [Anne Lisbeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/5/)