Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 17

His earnest look, and being also a very little boy, made him noticed by the strangers; so that he often sold the most, without knowing why.

Who acts: earnest look, boy · What happens: be, make, notice, sell, know · To what, where: little boy, boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earnest look, boy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 look	nmod:poss
2	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 look	amod
3	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 boy	cc
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 boy	cop
7	also	also	ADV	_	11 boy	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 made	xcomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 strangers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strangers	det
18	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 noticed	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sold	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 sold	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sold	nsubj
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 sold	advmod
24	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 most	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 sold	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knowing	punct
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 knowing	mark
29	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sold	advcl
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 knowing	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	boy's earnest look and a little boy not said here	a little boy		tree rules
2	make	past	boy's earnest look and a little boy	boy		tree rules
3	notice	participle	boy not said here		by the strangers	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	sell	past	boy		often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	know	gerund	boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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