The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 25

“Here I have sat waiting hour after hour, and have not even two sticks to lay across each other under the Christmas porridge-pot.”

Who acts: old woman · What happens: sit, wait, have, lay · To what, where: two sticks, each

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 (old woman), 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	_	5 sat	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	aux
5	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sat	xcomp
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waiting	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 hour	case
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waiting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 two	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 two	advmod
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sticks	nummod
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lay	mark
18	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	advcl
19	across	across	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 lay	obl
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	under	under	ADP	_	27 pot	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pot	det
24	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pot	compound
25	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pot	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 porridge	punct
27	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	present · perfect	the old woman = woman		here			tree rules
2	wait in a quote	gerund	the old woman = woman not said here			hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	the old woman = woman not said here	two sticks				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
4	lay in a quote	to-infinitive	the old woman = woman not said here		each		under the Christmas porridge pot	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under pot=Destination

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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