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title: She must not hear of her power from us; that power lies in her heart… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She must not hear of her power from us; that power lies in her heart, because she is a sweet and innocent child! Who acts: Queen, power. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 125

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She must not hear of her power from us; that power lies in her heart, because she is a sweet and innocent child!

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**Who acts:** Queen, power · **What happens:** not hear, lie, be · **To what, where:** heart, sweet child

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, power), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg1597:1280`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:14:125
# text = She must not hear of her power from us; that power lies in her heart, because she is a sweet and innocent child!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | must | Queen |  |  |  |  | of Queen's power; from us | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent of power=Theme from we=Source |
| 2 | **lie** | present | that power |  |  | Queen's heart |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Queen | a sweet child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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