The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 80

The hermit either did not hear the approach of his visitor, or pretended not to do so, for he took no notice, and continued to read his book.

Who acts: hermit, visitor · What happens: not hear, pretend, not do, take, continue, read · To what, where: approach, notice, book

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, visitor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hermit	det
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
3	either	either	CCONJ	_	2 hermit	cc
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 approach	det
8	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 visitor	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 visitor	nmod:poss
11	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 approach	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pretended	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 pretended	cc
14	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hear	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 do	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pretended	xcomp
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 took	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pretended	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 notice	det
24	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 continued	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 continued	cc
27	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 read	mark
29	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 continued	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 book	nmod:poss
31	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 read	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	the hermit	the approach of hermit's visitor	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus
2	pretend	participle	the hermit not said here		tree rules
3	not do	to-infinitive	the hermit not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	hermit	no notice	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
5	continue	past	hermit not said here		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	read	to-infinitive	hermit not said here	hermit's book	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
7	approach		hermit's visitor		nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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