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title: Hold your tongues!' he cried testily; and he made accurate notes of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Hold your tongues!' he cried testily; and he made accurate notes of all the colours and transitions--blue, and lilac, and dark brown. ' Who acts: you, eye. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 34

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Hold your tongues!' he cried testily; and he made accurate notes of all the colours and transitions--blue, and lilac, and dark brown. '

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**Who acts:** you, eye · **What happens:** hold, cry, make, note · **To what, where:** tongues, accurate notes, colours

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eye), 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:pg27200:98:34
# text = Hold your tongues!' he cried testily; and he made accurate notes of all the colours and transitions--blue, and lilac, and dark brown. '
1	Hold	hold	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	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	testily	testily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	transitions	transition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	lilac	lilac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | your tongues |  |  |  | dark brown *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | eye |  |  |  |  | testily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | eye | accurate notes of all colours and transitions |  |  |  | lilac *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Product |
| 4 | **note** |  |  | all colours and transitions |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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