The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 18
So the man with the ham thanked the other for his good advice, and rapped at the door.
Who acts: man · What happens: thank, rap · To what, where: other
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ham | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ham | det |
| 6 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thanked | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 advice | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 advice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 advice | amod |
| 13 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thanked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rapped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rapped | cc |
| 16 | rapped | rap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thanked | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rapped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the man with the ham | the other | for Man's good advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme for advice=Attribute | |||
| 2 | rap | participle | the man with the ham not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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