Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 20

Dear mother, don't be angry: I only said, and plenty of butter on it.'"

Who acts: Dear mother, I · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: plenty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear mother, I), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mother	amod
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 angry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
4	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 angry	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 angry	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 angry	cop
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plenty	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plenty	cc
14	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 butter	case
16	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plenty	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	infinitive · do-support	Dear mother					angry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	I			plenty			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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