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title: Keep your eyes wide open, and move softly, and if you come to a hole… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep your eyes wide open, and move softly, and if you come to a hole jump over it, and cling fast as I do." Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 37

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Keep your eyes wide open, and move softly, and if you come to a hole jump over it, and cling fast as I do."

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** keep, move, come, cling, do · **To what, where:** eyes, hole jump

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg27200:52:37
# text = Keep your eyes wide open, and move softly, and if you come to a hole jump over it, and cling fast as I do."
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cling	cling	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
24	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | your eyes |  |  |  | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | a hole jump over jump |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jump=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **cling** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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.

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