Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 24

"Prenez garde aux enfants!" said father owl; "children should not hear such things."

Who acts: Prenez garde, children · What happens: say, not hear · To what, where: father owl, such things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prenez garde, children), 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	_	3 garde	punct
2	Prenez	Prenez	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 garde	compound
3	garde	garde	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	aux	aux	ADP	_	5 enfants	case
5	enfants	enfant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 garde	nmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 garde	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 garde	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 owl	compound
10	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hear	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hear	advmod
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hear	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Prenez garde aux enfants	father owl					tree rules
2	not hear in a quote	should	children	such things					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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: «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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