The Yellow Fairy Book, Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes(4). (4) Andersen, sentence 90

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

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

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.

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 listen	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 listen	advmod
3	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 child	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listen	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 what	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 what	nsubj
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 one	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 neighbour	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neighbour	nmod:poss
20	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whispered	obl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 what	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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

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: «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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