The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 4
“If you will do what I ask you, you shall have a whole ham,” said he.
Who acts: you, Christmas · What happens: do, ask, have, say · To what, where: you, whole ham · 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, Christmas), 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 | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ham | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ham | amod |
| 16 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | 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 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | Christmas | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | you | a whole ham | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ham=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Christmas | 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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