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title: "Prenez garde aux enfants!" said father owl; "children should not he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Prenez garde aux enfants!" said father owl; "children should not hear such things." Who acts: Prenez garde, children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 24

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"Prenez garde aux enfants!" said father owl; "children should not hear such things."

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**Who acts:** Prenez garde, children · **What happens:** say, not hear · **To what, where:** father owl, such things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prenez garde, children), 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:pg27200:126:24
# text = "Prenez garde aux enfants!" said father owl; "children should not hear such things."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Prenez	Prenez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	garde	garde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	aux	aux	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	enfants	enfant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	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 | Prenez garde aux enfants | father owl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | should | children | such things |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=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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