--- title: "Will you be quiet? or I'll break your screaming head;" and she swun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Will you be quiet? or I'll break your screaming head;" and she swung about the fire-pot which she held in her hand, while the boy crouched to the earth and screamed. Who acts: you, boy, pot, fire pot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/73/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Metal Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/) / 73 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 73 "Will you be quiet? or I'll break your screaming head;" and she swung about the fire-pot which she held in her hand, while the boy crouched to the earth and screamed. **Who acts:** you, boy, pot, fire pot · **What happens:** be, break, swing, hold, crouch, scream · **To what, where:** screaming head, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy, pot, fire pot), 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:pg27200:89:73 # text = "Will you be quiet? or I'll break your screaming head;" and she swung about the fire-pot which she held in her hand, while the boy crouched to the earth and screamed. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 screaming screaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 crouched crouch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break** *in a quote* | future | the boy *= boy* | your screaming head | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient | | 3 | **swing** | past | pot | | | | | about the fire pot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about pot=Trajectory | | 4 | **hold** | past | the fire pot | | | pot's hand | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | | 5 | **crouch** | past | the boy | | | | | to the earth | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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:** «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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/74/) - ↑ back to [The Metal Pig](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/89/)