Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 49

Ah, then they'll never come back,' said the mother, and she burst out crying, 'it's the brandy that buries the eels.'"

Who acts: daughter, plenty, brandy · What happens: not come back, say, burst out, cry, be, bury · To what, where: mother, brandy, eels · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, plenty, brandy), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 come	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burst	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 burst	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burst	nsubj
17	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 burst	compound:prt
19	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 burst	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brandy	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 brandy	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brandy	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 brandy	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brandy	det
25	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burst	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 buries	nsubj
27	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 brandy	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eels	det
29	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 buries	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not come back	future	daughter		then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	daughter not said here	the mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	burst out	past	plenty			tree rules
4	cry speech: express	gerund	plenty not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	brandy	the brandy		tree rules
6	bury	present	the brandy	the eels		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eel=Theme

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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