The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 109

‘Good-day, little mother!’ said he.

Who acts: Petru · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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	_	4 day	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Petru						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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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