The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 15
“Oh! yes, you are right enough, for it is here,” said the old man.
Who acts: you, track, old man · What happens: be, 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, track, old 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 | _ | 8 right | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 right | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 right | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 right | cop |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 right | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 here | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 here | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 here | cop |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 right | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 here | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 right | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | enough, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | track | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the old man | 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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