Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 85
“That was no fairy tale, 'tis true,” said old Nanny; “but now it's coming.
Who acts: That, fairy tale, thing · What happens: be, say, come · 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, thing), 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 tale | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tale | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tale | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 tale | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tale | amod |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tis | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 tis | punct |
| 9 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tale | conj |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tis | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tale | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tale | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Nanny | amod |
| 15 | Nanny | Nanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 coming | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 coming | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 coming | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 coming | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 coming | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 coming | aux |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | no fairy tale and tis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no fairy tale and tis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | thing | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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