Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 6

“If I had but something new to tell,” said the old man.

Who acts: old man · What happens: have, tell, say · To what, where: something · 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 (old man), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 something	cc
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 had	obj
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the old man = man	something	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the old man = man not said here	something not said here	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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