Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 88

"Your 'something' is not enough for me," said the second brother; "what you talk of doing is nothing at all, it is journeyman's work, or might even be done by a machine.

Who acts: something, second brother, you, position, machine · What happens: not be, say, talk, do, be · To what, where: nothing, all, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, second brother, you, position), 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	_	8 enough	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 something	nmod:poss
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Your	punct
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 enough	nsubj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 something	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 enough	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 enough	advmod
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 enough	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 enough	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 enough	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brother	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 nothing	nsubj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 talk	nsubj
21	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 what	acl:relcl
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 doing	mark
23	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 talk	advcl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 nothing	cop
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 said	ccomp
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 nothing	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 work	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 work	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 work	cop
31	journeyman	journeyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 work	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 journeyman	case
33	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 done	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 done	cc
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 done	aux
37	even	even	ADV	_	39 done	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 done	aux:pass
39	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	conj
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 machine	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 machine	det
42	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 done	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	something			for the second brother = brother; enough property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the second brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	talk in a quote	present	you				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	gerund	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		nothing	all		tree rules
6	is a in a quote	present	position	journeyman's work			tree rules
7	do in a quote	might · passive	a machine				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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