Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 147

“How splendid that was!” said the little boy.

Who acts: that, little boy · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, little boy), 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 said	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 splendid	advmod
3	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 splendid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 splendid	cop
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 splendid	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 splendid	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	that					splendid property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the little boy						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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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