Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 6

But such things the baron did not notice; while he was riding past the little goose-girl, he reversed his hunting crop, and in rough play gave her such a push with it that she fell backward into the ditch.

Who acts: such things, child, girl · What happens: not notice, ride, reverse, give, fall · To what, where: hunting crop, push, girl, rough play, ditch

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such things, child, girl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 notice	cc
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 notice	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baron	det
5	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 things	appos
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 notice	advmod
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 riding	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 riding	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 riding	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 riding	aux
13	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 notice	advcl
14	past	past	ADP	_	19 girl	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 girl	amod
17	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 girl	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 goose	punct
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 riding	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reversed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reversed	nsubj
22	reversed	reverse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 crop	nmod:poss
24	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crop	compound
25	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reversed	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 play	case
29	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 play	amod
30	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obl
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	iobj
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 push	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 push	det
35	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 push	nmod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 fell	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fell	nsubj
40	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gave	advcl
41	backward	backward	ADV	_	40 fell	advmod
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 ditch	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ditch	det
44	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fell	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 notice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support	such things					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	ride	past · progressive	child				past the little goose girl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past girl=Trajectory
3	reverse	past	child	child's hunting crop				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crop=Patient
4	give	past	such things not said here	such push	girl	rough play	with push	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme
5	fall	past	girl				into the ditch result; backward property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ditch=Result

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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