Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 62

"That was no fairy tale," said the little elder-tree mother; "but now it comes!

Who acts: That, fairy tale, tree · What happens: be, say, come · To what, where: fairy tale, little tree mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, fairy tale, tree), 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	_	6 tale	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tale	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tale	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 tale	det
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tale	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tale	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mother	amod
12	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 elder	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mother	compound
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 comes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 comes	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 comes	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 comes	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 comes	nsubj
21	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	That	no fairy tale		tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	no fairy tale	the little tree mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	come in a quote	present	tree		now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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