Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 21

I can tell you nothing more, except that, in my honest opinion, you will never see your daughter again.

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: tell, not see, opine · To what, where: nothing, you, daughter, honest opinion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 tell	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 tell	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
8	except	except	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 see	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 that	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 opinion	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 opinion	nmod:poss
13	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 opinion	amod
14	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 opinion	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	I	nothing	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Topic
2	not see	future	you	your daughter		my honest opinion	again	except that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
3	opine		my						nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «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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