Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 240

"They are still crying, and yet there's nothing to cry about," said the clerk, when he told the story. "

Who acts: birds, nothing, clerk · What happens: cry, be, say, tell · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, nothing, clerk), 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	_	5 crying	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 crying	advmod
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 's	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 's	cc
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 's	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 's	expl
10	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	parataxis
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 's	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cry	mark
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	acl
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 cry	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clerk	det
19	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 told	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clerk	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 story	det
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	birds = bird			still		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be in a quote	present	nothing		there	yet		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the clerk					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past	clerk	the story				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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