Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 73

"Now I do not see the smallest thing," said the young man, "and now I don't hear anything more."

Who acts: young man · What happens: not see, say, not hear · To what, where: smallest thing, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 see	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hear	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 hear	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hear	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hear	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 hear	advmod
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 hear	obj
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 hear	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 hear	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not see in a quote	present · do-support	the young man = man	the smallest thing	now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not hear in a quote	present · do-support	the young man = man	anything	now	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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