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title: ‘Just listen to the innocent child!’ said the father, and each one w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Just listen to the innocent child!’ said the father, and each one whispered to his neighbour what the child had said. Who acts: child. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 90

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‘Just listen to the innocent child!’ said the father, and each one whispered to his neighbour what the child had said.

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

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:6:90
# text = ‘Just listen to the innocent child!’ said the father, and each one whispered to his neighbour what the child had said.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the innocent child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to child=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | participle |  | each one *not said here* | child's neighbour |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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