--- title: Then he took her hand and held her tightly, and as she was trying to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he took her hand and held her tightly, and as she was trying to get away, she undid the fur-cloak a little bit and the star-dress shone out. Who acts: King, Creature. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/82/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Crea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/) / 82 # The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 82 Then he took her hand and held her tightly, and as she was trying to get away, she undid the fur-cloak a little bit and the star-dress shone out. **Who acts:** King, Creature · **What happens:** take, hold, try, get away, undo, shine out · **To what, where:** hand, fur cloak, star dress This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Creature), 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:pg7277:42:82 # text = Then he took her hand and held her tightly, and as she was trying to get away, she undid the fur-cloak a little bit and the star-dress shone out. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 undid undo VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 34 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | King | Creature's hand | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | past | King *not said here* | | | | | tightly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **try** | past · progressive | Creature | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **get away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Creature *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **undo** | past | Creature | the fur cloak | | | | a little bit and the star dress *obl:unmarked* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient | | 6 | **shine out** | participle | | the star dress *not said here* | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/83/) - ↑ back to [Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/)