The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 13
Where are you going at this late hour?” said the man.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: go, 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 (you, 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 going | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 hour | det |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hour | amod |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | you | hour | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how 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: «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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