The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 44

Now the old woman, who was out spreading the hay, began to think dinner was long in coming, and said to the women and the mowers: “Though the master does not call us home, we may as well go.

Who acts: old woman, dinner, we · What happens: spread, begin, think, be, come, say · To what, where: hay, women, us · 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 (old woman, dinner, we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 woman	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spreading	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spreading	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spreading	aux
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 was	compound:prt
9	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 woman	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hay	det
11	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spreading	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 long	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 long	cop
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 think	ccomp
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 coming	mark
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 long	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 began	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 women	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 women	det
26	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 said	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mowers	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mowers	det
29	mowers	mower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 women	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 call	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 call	punct
32	Though	though	ADP	_	34 master	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 master	det
34	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 call	obl
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 call	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 call	advmod
37	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 said	parataxis
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 call	obj
39	home	home	ADV	_	37 call	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 go	nsubj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 go	aux
43	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	45 go	cc
44	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 as	fixed
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 call	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	spread	past · progressive	the old woman	the hay			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hay=Theme
2	begin	past	the old woman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	dinner			long property	tree rules
5	come	gerund	dinner not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past			the women and the mowers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic
7	not call in a quote	present · do-support			us	though the master; home property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
8	go in a quote	may	we				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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