The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 70

‘Of course I can’t!’ he said, half angrily.

Who acts: Stan · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	5 ca	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ca	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ca	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 ca	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ca	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 angrily	punct
12	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 angrily	advmod
13	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Stan					angrily property	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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