Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 39

“That is nothing!” said the old folks.

Who acts: That, nothing · What happens: be, say · To what, where: nothing, old folks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, nothing), 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	_	4 nothing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 nothing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nothing	cop
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 folks	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 folks	amod
10	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	nothing					tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	nothing	the old folks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent folk=Topic

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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