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title: "It is a sign from heaven that she is innocent," whispered many of t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "It is a sign from heaven that she is innocent," whispered many of them; but they ventured not to say it aloud. Who acts: crowd, swan, pieces. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 36

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"It is a sign from heaven that she is innocent," whispered many of them; but they ventured not to say it aloud.

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**Who acts:** crowd, swan, pieces · **What happens:** be, whisper, venture, not say · **To what, where:** sign, heaven, many, crowd · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, swan, pieces), 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:pg27200:210:36
# text = "It is a sign from heaven that she is innocent," whispered many of them; but they ventured not to say it aloud.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | crowd | a sign |  | heaven |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | swan | heaven *not said here* |  |  |  | innocent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past |  | many of pieces |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
| 4 | **venture** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | pieces *= piece* *not said here* | crowd |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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