The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 28

‘Ah! happy thought!’ says my friend River.

What happens: say · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. 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	_	5 thought	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 thought	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	amod
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj
11	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 friend	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		my friend					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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