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title: ‘Be quiet,’ said she; then turning to Elsa she added: ‘I am so glad… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Be quiet,’ said she; then turning to Elsa she added: ‘I am so glad you did not run away with the other children. Who acts: lightning, I, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 26

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‘Be quiet,’ said she; then turning to Elsa she added: ‘I am so glad you did not run away with the other children.

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**Who acts:** lightning, I, you · **What happens:** be, say, turn, add, not run away · **To what, where:** Elsa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning, I, you), 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:pg641:2:26
# text = ‘Be quiet,’ said she; then turning to Elsa she added: ‘I am so glad you did not run away with the other children.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | lightning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | lightning *not said here* |  | Elsa |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to elsa=Result |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **run away** | past · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | with the other children; away *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with child=Material |

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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:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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