Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 7

"I can go no farther," said Phoenix. "

Who acts: Phoenix · What happens: go, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phoenix), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 farther	advmod
6	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	can	Phoenix					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Phoenix						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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