The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 5
The poor one immediately thanked him, and promised this.
Who acts: poor one · What happens: thank, promise · To what, where: Christmas, this
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 (poor one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 thanked | advmod |
| 5 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thanked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | conj |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 promised | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the poor one | Christmas | immediately property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the poor one not said here | this | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent this=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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