The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 27

I could not come before; I had something of importance to see about, and a long way to go, too; but now you shall just see!” said the man, and then he set the hand-mill on the table, and bade it first grind light, then a table-cloth, and then meat, and beer, and everything else that was good for a Christmas Eve’s supper; and the mill ground all that he ordered.

Who acts: I, you, man, bade · What happens: not come, have, see about, go, see, say · To what, where: something, hand mill, table, bade, mill ground · 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 (I, you, man, bade), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 said	ccomp
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 importance	case
11	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 something	acl
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 see	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 way	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 way	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 too	punct
23	too	too	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 see	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 said	ccomp
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 set	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 set	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 set	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 set	nsubj
40	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mill	det
42	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 mill	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 hand	punct
44	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 set	obj
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 table	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 table	det
47	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 set	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 grind	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 grind	cc
50	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 grind	obl
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 grind	nsubj
52	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	53 grind	advmod
53	grind	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	33 said	conj
54	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 grind	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 cloth	punct
56	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 cloth	advmod
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 cloth	det
58	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 cloth	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 table	punct
60	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 light	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 meat	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 meat	cc
63	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 meat	advmod
64	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	parataxis
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 beer	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 beer	cc
67	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 meat	conj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 everything	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 everything	cc
70	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	64 meat	conj
71	else	else	ADV	_	70 everything	advmod
72	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	74 good	nsubj
73	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 good	cop
74	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 everything	acl:relcl
75	for	for	ADP	_	80 supper	case
76	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	78 Eve	det
77	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	78 Eve	compound
78	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	80 supper	nmod:poss
79	’s	's	PART	_	78 Eve	case
80	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 good	obl
81	;	;	PUNCT	_	89 ordered	punct
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	89 ordered	cc
83	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 ground	det
84	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 ground	compound
85	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	89 ordered	obl
86	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	89 ordered	det:predet
87	that	that	SCONJ	_	89 ordered	mark
88	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	89 ordered	nsubj
89	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	parataxis
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	could	I				before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	I	something				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	see about	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here			about property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	shall	you			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	set in a quote	past	Man	the hand mill	the table	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme on table=Destination
8	grind in a quote	present	bade	bade			first property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument light=Patient
9	is in a quote	past					for a Christmas Eve's supper; good property	tree rules
10	order in a quote	past	Man	the mill ground				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V 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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