Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 4

He soon became aware that the little one was paying more attention to what he said than most of the other children. "

Who acts: book, little one · What happens: become, pay, say · To what, where: more attention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, little one), 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	3 became	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 became	advmod
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 paying	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 paying	aux
10	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 aware	ccomp
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 attention	amod
12	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paying	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 paying	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 most	case
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 said	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 children	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 most	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	book		aware, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	pay	past · progressive	the little one	more attention		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	say speech: assert	past	book		than most of the other children	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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