Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 143

Very little was said about the matter to Ib, and he did not refer to it; his mother, however, noticed that he had grown very silent and pensive.

Who acts: Ib, mother · What happens: say, not refer, notice, grow · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, mother), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 little	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	xcomp
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 matter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matter	det
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Ib	case
9	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 refer	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 refer	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 refer	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 refer	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 refer	advmod
15	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 refer	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 noticed	punct
22	however	however	ADV	_	24 noticed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 noticed	punct
24	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mother	acl:relcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 grown	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grown	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 grown	aux
28	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 noticed	ccomp
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 silent	advmod
30	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grown	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pensive	cc
32	pensive	pensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grown	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive			about the matter to Ib; little property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»
2	not refer	past · do-support	Ib	matter		vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to it=Co-Theme
3	notice	past	Ib's mother not said here		however property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	grow	past · perfect	Ib		silent property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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