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title: Oh dear," sighed Little Claus, "I am very young, yet I am soon going… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh dear," sighed Little Claus, "I am very young, yet I am soon going to heaven." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 166

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Oh dear," sighed Little Claus, "I am very young, yet I am soon going to heaven."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** sigh, be, go · **To what, where:** Little, heaven

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:71:166
# text = Oh dear," sighed Little Claus, "I am very young, yet I am soon going to heaven."
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** *in a quote* | past |  | Little |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  | heaven |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial\_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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