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title: "Good gracious!" he exclaimed; "what in the world has happened to th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Good gracious!" he exclaimed; "what in the world has happened to the bishop? what can he be thinking about?" Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 16

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"Good gracious!" he exclaimed; "what in the world has happened to the bishop? what can he be thinking about?"

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** exclaim, happen, think about · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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:pg27200:41:16
# text = "Good gracious!" he exclaimed; "what in the world has happened to the bishop? what can he be thinking about?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | to the bishop | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think about** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can · progressive | gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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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