Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 34

Hold your tongues!' he cried testily; and he made accurate notes of all the colours and transitions--blue, and lilac, and dark brown. '

Who acts: you, eye · What happens: hold, cry, make, note · To what, where: tongues, accurate notes, colours

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eye), 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongues	nmod:poss
3	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hold	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
8	testily	testily	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
13	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 notes	amod
14	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 colours	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 colours	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 colours	det
18	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 notes	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 transitions	cc
20	transitions	transition	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 colours	conj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 blue	punct
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 colours	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lilac	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lilac	cc
25	lilac	lilac	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brown	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brown	cc
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brown	amod
29	brown	brown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	your tongues	dark brown obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	eye		testily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	eye	accurate notes of all colours and transitions	lilac obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Product
4	note			all colours and transitions		nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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