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title: Just stand on your head, whack your heels together, and cry “Hurrah,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just stand on your head, whack your heels together, and cry “Hurrah,” and the hare is yours.’ Who acts: you, hare. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 127

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Just stand on your head, whack your heels together, and cry “Hurrah,” and the hare is yours.’

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**Who acts:** you, hare · **What happens:** stand, whack, cry, be · **To what, where:** head, heels, Hurrah, yours

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hare), 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:pg641:24:127
# text = Just stand on your head, whack your heels together, and cry “Hurrah,” and the hare is yours.’
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	whack	whack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cry	cry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | your head |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location |
| 2 | **whack** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your heels |  |  |  | together *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Hurrah |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the hare | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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