The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 32
If any of them had noticed that there was a stranger present they took no heed of him, but went on with what they were doing.
Who acts: any, stranger present, amid · What happens: notice, be, take, go on, do, heed · To what, where: heed, present · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (any, stranger present, amid), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 noticed | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 any | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | aux |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 was | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 present | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 present | compound |
| 12 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 present | acl:relcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 heed | det |
| 16 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heed | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 what | case |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 doing | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 doing | aux |
| 27 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past · perfect | any | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | a stranger present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | amid | no heed of present | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | any not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | past · progressive | amid | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | heed | present | nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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