The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 108

‘Oh, yes; that was Kay!’ said Gerda.

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

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Kay), 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	_	8 Kay	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 Kay	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 Kay	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 Kay	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Kay	cop
8	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Kay	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Kay	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	Kay					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Kay						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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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