The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 104

“Well, no; not directly,” said he; “but the father said that none of them could tell me any more than he had done.”

Who acts: Rasmus, father, none · What happens: say, tell, do · To what, where: Rasmus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus, father, none), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Well	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 directly	advmod
7	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 Well	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	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	_	17 said	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 tell	mark
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 tell	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 none	nmod
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	any	any	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 tell	advmod
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 done	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 done	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 done	aux
30	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 tell	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rasmus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	none	Rasmus	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	do in a quote	past · perfect	Rasmus		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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