Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 25

"Inferior, indeed!" said the buckwheat. "

Who acts: buckwheat · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buckwheat), 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 Inferior	punct
2	Inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Inferior	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Inferior	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Inferior	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Inferior	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 buckwheat	det
9	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the buckwheat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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