The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 33
“But, for heaven’s sake, tell me where you got your riches from,” said he to his brother.
Who acts: sake, brother, Man · What happens: tell, get, say · To what, where: Man, riches, brother · 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 (sake, brother, Man), 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 | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sake | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sake | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sake | case |
| 5 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sake | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 heaven | case |
| 7 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sake | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | advcl |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 riches | nmod:poss |
| 15 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 got | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | heaven's sake | Man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | Man's brother = brother | your riches | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Man | Man's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient 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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