The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 28

“Bless me!” said the old woman as one thing after another appeared; and she wanted to know where her husband had got the mill from, but he would not tell her that.

Who acts: old woman, another, woman, husband, mill · What happens: bless, say, appear, want, know, get · To what, where: old woman, mill, that, woman · 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 (old woman, another, woman, husband), 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	_	2 Bless	punct
2	Bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bless	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bless	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bless	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 thing	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 thing	nummod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 appeared	mark
14	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	15 appeared	nsubj
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanted	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	xcomp
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 got	advmod
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	aux
26	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 know	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mill	det
28	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	26 got	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 tell	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 tell	advmod
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 tell	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bless in a quote	infinitive		the old woman = woman			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the old woman			as one thing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	appear	past	another				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	want	past	woman				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	get	past · perfect	woman's husband	the mill			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus
7	not tell speech: assert	would	mill	that	woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient that=Topic

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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