The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 11

“Good-evening,” said the man with the ham.

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

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. 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	_	4 evening	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evening	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 evening	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 evening	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 ham	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ham	det
12	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man with the ham						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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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