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title: "Oh," said a young courtier, "now we have found her; what wonderful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Oh," said a young courtier, "now we have found her; what wonderful power for such a small creature; I have certainly heard it before." Who acts: young courtier, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 41

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"Oh," said a young courtier, "now we have found her; what wonderful power for such a small creature; I have certainly heard it before."

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**Who acts:** young courtier, we · **What happens:** say, find, power, hear · **To what, where:** cow, creature · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young courtier, we), 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:pg27200:125:41
# text = "Oh," said a young courtier, "now we have found her; what wonderful power for such a small creature; I have certainly heard it before."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a young courtier and wonderful power |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | we | cow |  |  | now |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 3 | **power** *in a quote* |  | a young courtier and wonderful power |  |  |  |  | for such small creature | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | a young courtier and wonderful power *= courtier* | creature |  |  |  | before, certainly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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:** «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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