The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 19
When he got in, everything happened just as the old man had said it would: all the people, great and small, came round him like ants on an ant-hill, and each tried to outbid the other for the ham.
Who acts: Man, everything, old man, people, each · What happens: get in, happen, say, come, try, outbid · To what, where: other · 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, everything, old man, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 happened | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 would | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 people | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 people | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 came | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 great | punct |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 small | cc |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 great | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | parataxis |
| 27 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 came | obl |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 ants | case |
| 30 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 came | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 hill | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hill | det |
| 33 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hill | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 ant | punct |
| 35 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ants | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tried | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 tried | cc |
| 38 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 tried | nsubj |
| 39 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 outbid | mark |
| 41 | outbid | outbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 tried | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 other | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 outbid | obj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 ham | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 ham | det |
| 46 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 outbid | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | past | Man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | everything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | all people | round Man; like ants on a ant hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | try | past | each | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | outbid not said to happen | to-infinitive | each not said here | the other | for the ham | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot other=Theme |
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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