The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 31

“I cannot say,” answered the hermit.

Who acts: hermit · What happens: not say, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), 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	_	5 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hermit	det
10	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert in a quote	can	the hermit = hermit						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	the hermit						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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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