Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 108
Jurgen did not pay any attention to his remarks, but said good-bye to the old man and went on towards the house where Martin dwelt.
Who acts: Jurgen, Martin · What happens: not pay, say, go, dwell, remark · To what, where: attention, good bye, old man, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, Martin), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 pay | advmod |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 attention | det |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 remarks | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 remarks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | parataxis |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bye | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 15 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 dwelt | advmod |
| 27 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 dwelt | nsubj |
| 28 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 house | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay | past · do-support | Jurgen | any attention | to Jurgen's remarks | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | good bye | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the house | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on house=Location | |||||
| 4 | dwell | past | Martin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | remark | Jurgen | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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