Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 98

Then she embraced him, and paid no attention to the strangers, nor did she notice the sack.

Who acts: woman · What happens: embrace, pay, notice · To what, where: ostler, attention, sack

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 embraced	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 embraced	nsubj
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 embraced	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 paid	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 paid	cc
7	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 embraced	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 attention	det
9	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 strangers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 strangers	det
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 notice	punct
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	17 notice	cc
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 notice	aux
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 notice	nsubj
17	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 embraced	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sack	det
19	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 notice	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	woman	ostler	then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	pay	past	woman not said here	no attention		to the strangers	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	notice	past · do-support	woman	the sack			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sack=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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