Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 25

They paid no attention to Jurgen's defence; the few drops of blood on his shirt-sleeve bore heavy witness against him.

Who acts: fishermen, Jurgen · What happens: pay, defend · To what, where: attention

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen, Jurgen), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 attention	det
4	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 defence	case
6	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 defence	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Jurgen	case
8	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 drops	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 drops	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 drops	amod
12	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 blood	case
14	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drops	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	22 witness	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 witness	nmod:poss
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleeve	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 shirt	punct
19	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bore	compound
20	bore	bore	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 witness	compound
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 witness	amod
22	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drops	nmod
23	against	against	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 witness	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	fishermen = fisherman	no attention				to Jurgen's defence	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	defend		Jurgen						nom defence «process 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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