The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 105

'We can go no further,' spake Covan to the cows.

Who acts: We · What happens: go, speak · To what, where: Covan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (We), 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 go	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 further	advmod
6	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spake	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 spake	punct
9	spake	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
10	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 spake	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cows	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cows	det
13	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spake	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	We					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	We not said here	Covan				to the cows	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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