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title: They paid no attention to Jurgen's defence; the few drops of blood o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They paid no attention to Jurgen's defence; the few drops of blood on his shirt-sleeve bore heavy witness against him. Who acts: fishermen, Jurgen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 25

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They paid no attention to Jurgen's defence; the few drops of blood on his shirt-sleeve bore heavy witness against him.

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**Who acts:** fishermen, Jurgen · **What happens:** pay, defend · **To what, where:** attention

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen, Jurgen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:161:25
# text = They paid no attention to Jurgen's defence; the few drops of blood on his shirt-sleeve bore heavy witness against him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
17	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bore	bore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | fishermen *= fisherman* | no attention |  |  |  | to Jurgen's defence | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **defend** |  | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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