Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 19

He noticed that the more he described, the more interested the miller became, especially when he spoke of the fierce vulture and of the royal eagle.

Who acts: Rudy, interested · What happens: notice, describe, become, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, interested), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 described	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 more	det
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 described	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 described	nsubj
7	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 interested	det
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 interested	advmod
11	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 became	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 miller	det
13	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spoke	punct
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	19 spoke	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 spoke	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoke	nsubj
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 became	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 vulture	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 vulture	det
22	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 vulture	amod
23	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spoke	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eagle	cc
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 eagle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 eagle	det
27	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eagle	amod
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 vulture	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Rudy		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	describe	past	Rudy		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	the interested		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	speak speech: other	past	Rudy	of the fierce vulture and the royal eagle; especially property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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