Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 248

But the learned man heard nothing of all these festivities, for he had already been executed.

Who acts: learned man · What happens: learn, hear, execute · To what, where: nothing, man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man), 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	_	5 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 heard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 festivities	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 festivities	det:predet
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 festivities	det
10	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nothing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 executed	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 executed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 executed	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 executed	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	17 executed	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 executed	aux:pass
17	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heard	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	participle			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	the learned man	nothing	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	execute	past · perfect · passive		man	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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