Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 43

"Hold fast, Rudy!" cried his uncle; "hold fast, with all your might."

Who acts: you, uncle · What happens: hold, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, uncle), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Hold	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Rudy	punct
5	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	vocative
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hold	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 uncle	nmod:poss
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
13	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Hold	conj
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 hold	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 might	punct
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 might	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 might	det:predet
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 might	nmod:poss
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hold	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hold in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Rudy vocative; fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Rudy's uncle		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	fast property	vn exist-47.1 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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