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title: "You are detestable!" exclaimed Babette, bursting into tears. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "You are detestable!" exclaimed Babette, bursting into tears. " Who acts: You, Babette. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 34

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"You are detestable!" exclaimed Babette, bursting into tears. "

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**Who acts:** You, Babette · **What happens:** be, exclaim, burst · **To what, where:** tears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Babette), 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:pg27200:62:34
# text = "You are detestable!" exclaimed Babette, bursting into tears. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	detestable	detestable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
14	"	"	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | detestable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burst** | gerund | Babette *not said here* |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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