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title: He soon became aware that the little one was paying more attention t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 4

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

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:67:4
# text = He soon became aware that the little one was paying more attention to what he said than most of the other children. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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