The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 39

‘By Jove! that’s a good idea!’ says comrade Wasp’s-nest.

Who acts: that, good idea · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good idea, comrade · 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: who acts (that, good idea), 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	_	9 idea	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 Jove	case
3	Jove	Jove	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 idea	obl
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Jove	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 idea	nsubj
6	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 idea	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 idea	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 idea	amod
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 idea	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 idea	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	obj
14	Wasp’s	Wasp's	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 comrade	appos
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 nest	punct
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Wasp’s	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a good idea				by Jove	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a good idea	comrade					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comrade=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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