The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 15

‘Oh,’ said they, ‘that was only a joke; it didn’t mean anything.’

Who acts: men, that, bargain · What happens: say, be, not mean · To what, where: joke, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, that, bargain), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 joke	punct
8	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	13 joke	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 joke	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 joke	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 joke	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 mean	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mean	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mean	aux
17	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 mean	advmod
18	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 mean	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	men = man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	that	a joke	tree rules
3	not mean	past · do-support	bargain	anything	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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