The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 97

“Well, well, I will,” said he, “but there is nothing to tell about it.

Who acts: steward, nothing · What happens: say, be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 will	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 will	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Well	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 “	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 is	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 “	conj
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 is	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 nothing	acl
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	steward			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	be in a quote	present	nothing	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		about life	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about it=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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