Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 4

"What a ridiculous little shoot!" said one. "

Who acts: ridiculous little shoot · What happens: say · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ridiculous little shoot), 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	_	6 shoot	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 shoot	det
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shoot	det
4	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoot	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoot	amod
6	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 shoot	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 shoot	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	what ridiculous little shoot	one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=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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