Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 52

He also wanted to go a little way farther out and up the bay--that is to say, out into the world in a ship--but his mother said, like the eel-breeder, "There are so many bad people--eel spearers!"

Who acts: Jurgen, that, mother, many bad people · What happens: want, go, be, say · To what, where: little way, ship · 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 (Jurgen, that, mother, many bad people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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