Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 16

“My mother says that all you look at can be turned into a fairy tale: and that you can find a story in everything.”

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, look, turn, find · To what, where: all, fairy tale, story, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you), 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	_	4 says	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 turned	nsubj:pass
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 all	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 look	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 turned	aux:pass
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	ccomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 tale	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tale	det
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tale	compound
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 find	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 find	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 everything	case
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 find	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	My mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	present	you			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	turn in a quote	can · passive		all	a fairy tale	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into tale=Trajectory
4	find in a quote	can	you	a story	everything	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic

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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