The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 29

“Never mind where I got it; you can see that it is a good one, and the water that turns it will never freeze,” said the man.

Who acts: man, you, light, water · What happens: not mind, get, see, be, turn, not freeze · To what, where: light, good one · 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, you, light, water), 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	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 got	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mind	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mind	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 one	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 one	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 one	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 water	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 water	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	appos
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 turns	nsubj
23	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 water	acl:relcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 freeze	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 freeze	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 freeze	advmod
27	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 turns	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not mind in a quote	infinitive			vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	get in a quote	past	the man = man	light	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	see in a quote	can	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	light	a good one	tree rules
5	turn in a quote	present	the water		tree rules
6	not freeze in a quote	future	light		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	say speech: assert	past	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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