Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 109

He heard loud talking inside; Martin was not alone, and this made Jurgen waver in his determination, for he did not wish to see Else again.

Who acts: Jurgen, Martin, this · What happens: hear, talk, not be, make, not wish, see · To what, where: Jurgen waver, determination

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, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	xcomp
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 loud	advcl
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 talking	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 alone	punct
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 alone	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 alone	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 alone	advmod
10	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
15	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 waver	compound
16	waver	waver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 determination	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 determination	nmod:poss
19	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wish	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 wish	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wish	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wish	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 wish	advmod
25	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wish	xcomp
28	Else	else	ADV	_	27 see	advmod
29	again	again	ADV	_	27 see	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Jurgen				loud property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	talk	gerund	Jurgen not said here				inside property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	Martin				alone property	tree rules
4	make	past	this	Jurgen waver	Jurgen's determination			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset waver=Product
5	not wish	past · do-support	Jurgen					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here			again	else property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	determine		Jurgen					nom determination «act intransitive»: 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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