The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 31

‘How clever you always are!’ said the Troll.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Troll · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (you), 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	_	3 clever	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 clever	advmod
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 clever	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 clever	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clever	cop
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 clever	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Troll	det
11	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					always, clever property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the Troll					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent troll=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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