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title: Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child," said the fa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child," said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. " Who acts: Good heavens, one, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 82

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Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child," said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. "

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**Who acts:** Good heavens, one, child · **What happens:** listen, say, whisper · **To what, where:** father, other · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good heavens, one, child), 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:pg27200:32:82
# text = Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child," said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. "
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
20	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | infinitive | Good heavens |  |  |  |  | to the voice of a innocent child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Good heavens *not said here* | the father |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | one |  | the other |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient how S\_INF»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · perfect | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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