Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 13

She had not thought of such a thing; but now she heard it said, and saw the strangers descending, and went after them.

Who acts: Paris, thing, strangers · What happens: not think, hear, say, see, descend, go · To what, where: strangers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (Paris, thing, strangers), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 thing	case
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 thing	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 heard	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 strangers	det
20	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
21	descending	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 strangers	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	conj
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · perfect	Paris			of such thing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	Paris		now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	Paris not said here	the strangers			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
5	descend	gerund	the strangers not said here				vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	Paris not said here		after strangers = stranger		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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