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title: If any of them had noticed that there was a stranger present they to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 32

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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.

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**Who acts:** any, stranger present, amid · **What happens:** notice, be, take, go on, do, heed · **To what, where:** heed, present · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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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:pg641:25:32
# text = 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.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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