The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 39

So, when dinner-time drew near, he set the mill on the kitchen-table, and said: “Grind herrings and milk pottage, and do it both quickly and well.”

Who acts: dinner time, mill · What happens: draw, set, say, grind, do · To what, where: mill, kitchen table, herrings, harvest · 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 (dinner time, mill), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 drew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drew	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 drew	advmod
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 dinner	punct
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	nsubj
7	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	near	near	ADV	_	7 drew	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 set	nsubj
11	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drew	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mill	det
13	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 table	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 kitchen	punct
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drew	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Grind	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Grind	punct
24	Grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
25	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Grind	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pottage	cc
27	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pottage	compound
28	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 herrings	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 do	cc
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Grind	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	obj
33	both	both	ADV	_	31 do	advmod
34	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	31 do	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 well	cc
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 quickly	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 Grind	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 Grind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	dinner time			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	past	mill	the mill	the kitchen table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme on table=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	dinner time not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	grind in a quote	infinitive		herrings and milk pottage			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herring=Patient
5	do in a quote	infinitive		harvest		both, quickly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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