--- title: “Oh! hold your tongue!” said the landlord’s wife; “so many people ha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh! hold your tongue!” said the landlord’s wife; “so many people have paid for their curiosity with their lives, it were a thousand pities if those beautiful eyes were never again to behold daylight.” Who acts: wife, landlord, beautiful eyes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, landlord, beautiful eyes), 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:pg503:13:79 # text = “Oh! hold your tongue!” said the landlord’s wife; “so many people have paid for their curiosity with their lives, it were a thousand pities if those beautiful eyes were never again to behold daylight.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 pities pity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 34 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 35 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 37 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 behold behold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 42 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your tongue | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the landlord's wife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | many people | | | | for people's curiosity with people's lives | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for curiosity=Theme | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | landlord | thousand pities | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **behold** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | that beautiful eyes | daylight | | | again | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus | 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/80/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)