Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 8

“That is the very thing that nobody can make out,” said his mother.

Who acts: That, mother · What happens: be, make out, say · To what, where: thing · 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 (That, mother), 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 thing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 make	nsubj
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 make	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	parataxis
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 make	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the thing	tree rules
2	make out in a quote	can	that		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	man's mother		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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