English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 28
Kate followed, but he didn't seem to notice her.
Who acts: Kate, prince · What happens: follow, not seem, notice · To what, where: Kate
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kate, prince), 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 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 seem | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seem | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seem | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 seem | advmod |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 notice | mark |
| 10 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seem | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 notice | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Kate | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not seem | past · do-support | prince | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | notice | to-infinitive | prince not said here | Kate | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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