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title: ‘Be quiet, you little toad,’ he cried, ‘or I’ll shoot you dead.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Be quiet, you little toad,’ he cried, ‘or I’ll shoot you dead.’ Who acts: stag, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 76

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‘Be quiet, you little toad,’ he cried, ‘or I’ll shoot you dead.’

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**Who acts:** stag, I · **What happens:** be, cry, shoot · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, I), 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:pg7277:49:76
# text = ‘Be quiet, you little toad,’ he cried, ‘or I’ll shoot you dead.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	SYM	SYM	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | stag |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shoot** | future | I | you |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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 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.

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