Find dialogue tag

Find likely dialogue attribution tags beside quoted speech.

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ToolDialogue Tag Finder
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How it works

Quoted spans are identified and nearby attribution verbs or speaker labels are matched, with punctuation and paragraph boundaries used to associate a tag with dialogue. The result highlights likely tags for revision rather than resolving every narrative structure.

  • Local punctuation and attribution patterns cover common prose without a full narrative parser.

Worked example

A bookism and an adverb-laden tag
"exclaimed" is a said-bookism, "said softly" pairs a tag verb with an adverb
Input
											"I can't believe it," she exclaimed loudly. "Really?" he said softly.
Output
												"exclaimed" - said-bookism at character 26
"said softly" - adverb-laden tag at character 57

When to use this

Fiction edits, screenplay conversion, and manuscript audits review dialogue tags.

Edge cases

  • A quote can contain dialogue without an attribution tag.
  • She smiled is an action beat, not a speech verb.
  • Nested quotation marks complicate span boundaries.