The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 38

It was evening when the rich man got the mill home, and in the morning he bade the old woman go out and spread the hay after the mowers, and he would attend to the house himself that day, he said.

Who acts: harvest, rich man, mill, old woman · What happens: be, get, bade, go out, spread, attend · To what, where: evening, mill, hay · 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 (harvest, rich man, mill, old woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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