More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 132

Hout!" said the wee, wee Mannie--

Who acts: wee wee Mannie · What happens: hout, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wee wee Mannie), 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	Hout	hout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Hout	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hout	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mannie	det
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Mannie	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Mannie	punct
8	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Mannie	amod
9	Mannie	Mannie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hout	infinitive							tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the wee wee Mannie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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