The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 14

“I am going to Dead Man’s Hall, if only I am on the right track,” answered the poor man.

Who acts: poor man · What happens: go, be, answer · To what, where: Hall, right track · 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 (poor 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 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 answered	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 Hall	case
6	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Man	compound
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hall	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Man	case
9	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 track	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 only	mark
12	only	only	ADV	_	18 track	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 track	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 track	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 track	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 track	det
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 track	amod
18	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the poor man = man	Dead Man's Hall	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	present	the poor man = man	the right track	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	the poor man		tree rules

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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