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title: Heaven preserve us!" said he; "How did I get up here and fall asleep… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Heaven preserve us!" said he; "How did I get up here and fall asleep in this way? Who acts: Heaven, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 149

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Heaven preserve us!" said he; "How did I get up here and fall asleep in this way?

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**Who acts:** Heaven, I · **What happens:** preserve, say, get up, fall · **To what, where:** us, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, I), 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:pg27200:44:149
# text = Heaven preserve us!" said he; "How did I get up here and fall asleep in this way?
1	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | infinitive | Heaven |  | us |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Heaven |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get up** | past · do-support | I |  |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | this way |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |

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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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