Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 83

“But that is no fairy tale,” said the little boy, who was listening to the story.

Who acts: that, fairy tale, little boy · What happens: be, say, listen · To what, where: fairy tale · 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, fairy tale, little boy), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 tale	cc
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 tale	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tale	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 tale	det
6	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tale	amod
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tale	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 tale	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listening	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 listening	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 listening	aux
17	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 boy	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 story	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 listening	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	no fairy tale		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	no fairy tale			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	listen	past · progressive	the little boy		to the story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme

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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