Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 41

“They say at home,” said the little boy, “that you are so very, very lonely!”

Who acts: hands, little boy, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, little boy, 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	_	3 say	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lonely	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 lonely	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 very	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 very	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 very	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 very	advmod
18	very	very	ADV	_	21 lonely	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 very	punct
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 lonely	advmod
21	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 lonely	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	hands = hand	home		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: express	past	the little boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	you		very property	tree rules

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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