Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 27

"Quack!" said the little Toad; and that's just as if one of us were to say, "Aha!"

Who acts: Quack, that, one · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quack, that, one), 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 Quack	punct
2	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Quack	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Quack	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Toad	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Toad	amod
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 say	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 one	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 one	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 one	case
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 one	mark
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 say	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 say	mark
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Aha	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Aha	punct
24	Aha	aha	INTJ	_	21 say	obj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Aha	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Quack		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	that	as one; of us	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	one		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aha=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: «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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