Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 52

"Bah!" said the brothers; "that is nothing but clay out of the ditch."

Who acts: Bah, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: brothers, nothing, ditch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bah, that), 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	_	2 Bah	punct
2	Bah	bah	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 nothing	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 nothing	cop
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 said	parataxis
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 clay	cc
14	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 ditch	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 ditch	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ditch	det
18	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Bah	the brothers					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	that	nothing		the ditch			tree rules

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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