Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 165

How often he had been at Bex, how well he knew the mill, and how often he had seen Babette, when most likely she had not noticed him; and lastly, that full of many thoughts which he could not tell her, he had been to the mill on the evening when she and her father has started on their long journey, but not too far for him to find a way to overtake them.

Who acts: Rudy, Bex, arm, godmother · What happens: be, know, see, not notice, not tell, start · To what, where: Bex, mill, Babette, Rudy, many thoughts, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, Bex, arm, godmother), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	7 Bex	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Bex	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Bex	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 Bex	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Bex	case
7	Bex	Bex	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 knew	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 well	advmod
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 knew	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mill	det
14	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knew	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seen	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 often	advmod
18	often	often	ADV	_	21 seen	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 knew	advcl
22	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 noticed	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 noticed	mark
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 likely	advmod
26	likely	likely	ADV	_	30 noticed	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 noticed	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 noticed	advmod
30	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 Babette	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 noticed	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 lastly	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lastly	cc
34	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knew	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 full	punct
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 full	nsubj
37	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lastly	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 thoughts	case
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 thoughts	amod
40	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 full	obl
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 tell	obj
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tell	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 tell	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 tell	advmod
45	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 thoughts	acl:relcl
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tell	iobj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 mill	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 mill	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 mill	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 mill	cop
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 mill	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 mill	det
53	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lastly	conj
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 evening	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 evening	det
56	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 mill	nmod
57	when	when	SCONJ	_	63 started	mark
58	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 started	nsubj:pass
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 father	cc
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 father	nmod:poss
61	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 she	conj
62	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 started	aux
63	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 mill	acl
64	on	on	ADP	_	67 journey	case
65	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 journey	nmod:poss
66	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 journey	amod
67	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 started	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 find	punct
69	but	but	CCONJ	_	76 find	cc
70	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	72 far	advmod
71	too	too	ADV	_	72 far	advmod
72	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	76 find	advmod
73	for	for	SCONJ	_	76 find	mark
74	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 find	nsubj
75	to	to	PART	_	76 find	mark
76	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 lastly	conj
77	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	78 way	det
78	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 find	obj
79	to	to	PART	_	80 overtake	mark
80	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	78 way	acl
81	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 overtake	obj
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Rudy			Bex		often property	tree rules
2	know	past	Bex	the mill				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus
3	see	past · perfect	Rudy	Babette				often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer babette=Stimulus
4	not notice	past · perfect	arm	Rudy				likely property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	not tell speech: assert	could	Rudy	many thoughts	arm				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient which=Topic
6	is	past · perfect	Rudy				evening	to the mill	tree rules
7	start	present · perfect · passive		arm		godmother's long journey			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
8	find	to-infinitive	Rudy	a way				far property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
9	overtake	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here	godmother					tree rules
10	journey		godmother						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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