The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 35
“There you see what has brought me all my wealth!” said he, and brought out the mill, and made it grind first one thing and then another.
Who acts: you, Man, wealth · What happens: see, bring, say, bring out, make, grind · To what, where: Man, mill, wealth, one thing · 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 (you, Man, wealth), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 see | expl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wealth | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 brought | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mill | det |
| 21 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | xcomp |
| 27 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 grind | advmod |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 thing | nummod |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grind | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 another | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 another | advmod |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 made | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring out | past | Man not said here | the mill | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mill=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | past | wealth | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | grind | infinitive | wealth not said here | one thing | first property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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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