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title: ‘Well, did you ever hear such impudence?’ asked Hannah, turning to a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, did you ever hear such impudence?’ asked Hannah, turning to a neighbour. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 120

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‘Well, did you ever hear such impudence?’ asked Hannah, turning to a neighbour.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, hear, ask, turn · **To what, where:** such impudence, Hannah, neighbour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:26:120
# text = ‘Well, did you ever hear such impudence?’ asked Hannah, turning to a neighbour.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	impudence	impudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | present | you | such impudence |  |  | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer impudence=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Hannah |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent hannah=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  | a neighbour |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to neighbour=Trajectory |

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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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