Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 134

The Toad did not hear any more, nor did she understand half of what she had heard.

Who acts: Toad, Aesop · What happens: not hear, understand, hear · To what, where: half

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toad, Aesop), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Toad	det
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hear	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 hear	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 understand	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 understand	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 understand	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 understand	nsubj
12	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hear	parataxis
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 understand	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 half	nmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 what	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not hear	past · do-support	the Toad		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	understand	past · do-support	Aesop	half	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus
3	hear	past · perfect	Aesop		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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