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title: His earnest look, and being also a very little boy, made him noticed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His earnest look, and being also a very little boy, made him noticed by the strangers; so that he often sold the most, without knowing why. Who acts: earnest look, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 17

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His earnest look, and being also a very little boy, made him noticed by the strangers; so that he often sold the most, without knowing why.

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**Who acts:** earnest look, boy · **What happens:** be, make, notice, sell, know · **To what, where:** little boy, boy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earnest look, boy), 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:pg27200:52:17
# text = His earnest look, and being also a very little boy, made him noticed by the strangers; so that he often sold the most, without knowing why.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | boy's earnest look and a little boy *not said here* | a little boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | boy's earnest look and a little boy | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **notice** | participle | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the strangers | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sell** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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