Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 52

"Nothing at all," answered their mother; "that's only something external.

Who acts: Nothing, that · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: mother, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, that), 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	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 answered	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Nothing	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 something	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 something	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 something	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 something	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 something	advmod
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 answered	obl
16	external	external	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 something	amod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Nothing		roses's mother				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	present	that	something					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: «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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