Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 38

"Yes, there may be too much of a good thing sometimes," said the magician.

Who acts: magician · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 much	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 much	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 be	expl
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 thing	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 thing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 much	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 much	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 magician	det
18	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive						of a good thing; much property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the magician						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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