Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 87
“Listen to the voice of innocence!” exclaimed his father; and what the child had said was whispered from one to another.
Who acts: father, child · What happens: listen, exclaim, say, whisper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 voice | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 innocence | case |
| 7 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 whispered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 whispered | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 whispered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | aux |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 whispered | aux:pass |
| 21 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 whispered | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | to the voice of innocence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Emperor's father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | past · passive | from one to another | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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