The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 99
‘What a fuss over a poor little worm!’ said the big sister scornfully.
Who acts: fuss · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fuss), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 fuss | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fuss | det |
| 4 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 worm | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 worm | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 worm | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 worm | amod |
| 9 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fuss | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 worm | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 worm | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sister | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sister | amod |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | what fuss over a poor little worm | scornfully property | 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: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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