Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 76

"Why, there's a flower!" he said; "a snowdrop, a summer gauk, a poet gauk!

What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 's	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flower	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 flower	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 flower	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 's	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 snowdrop	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 snowdrop	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 snowdrop	det
15	snowdrop	snowdrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gauk	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 gauk	det
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gauk	compound
19	gauk	gauk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snowdrop	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gauk	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gauk	det
22	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gauk	compound
23	gauk	gauk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snowdrop	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present				there			tree rules
2	say speech: express	past							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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