Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 82

Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child," said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. "

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

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good heavens, one, 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heavens	amod
2	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listen	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 heavens	punct
4	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 voice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 voice	det
7	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 child	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
10	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voice	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whispered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 whispered	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 whispered	nsubj
20	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 whispered	obl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 said	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	aux
28	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 whispered	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen	infinitive	Good heavens			to the voice of a innocent child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Good heavens not said here	the father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic
3	whisper speech: assert in a quote	past	one		the other		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient how S_INF»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past · perfect	the child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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: «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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