Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 101

"Look at him! only look at him!" said the man to his next neighbor. "

Who acts: man · What happens: look, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Look	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Look	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 neighbor	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neighbor	nmod:poss
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 neighbor	amod
18	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive		at man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	look in a quote	infinitive		at man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	the man to man's next neighbor		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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