Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 30

They trod on my tail twice, but I did not mew; that would have attracted notice."

Who acts: table, I · What happens: tread, not mew, attract · To what, where: tail, attracted notice, that

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 (table, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trod	nsubj
2	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trod	obl
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 trod	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mew	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 mew	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 mew	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mew	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mew	advmod
12	mew	mew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trod	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 attracted	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 attracted	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 attracted	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 attracted	aux
17	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 notice	amod
18	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mew	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 mew	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 mew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tread	past	table		my tail	twice property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tail=Trajectory
2	not mew	past · do-support	I	attracted notice			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	attract	would · perfect · passive		that			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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