Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 27

“No matter,” said the Raven; “I will tell you as well as I can; however, it will be bad enough.”

Who acts: matter · What happens: say, tell, be · To what, where: Raven, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 matter	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 matter	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Raven	det
8	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 well	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 tell	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 can	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 can	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 well	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bad	punct
21	however	however	ADV	_	26 bad	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 however	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bad	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bad	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 bad	cop
26	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	advcl
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 bad	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	no matter	the Raven			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	no matter = matter		you	well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is in a quote	future	matter			bad, enough, however property	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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