The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 184

‘Ah, what an idiot I am!’ said he.

What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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	_	4 what	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 said	nsubj:outer
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idiot	det
6	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 am	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idiot	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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