The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 6

“Well, here is the ham, and now you must go straight to Dead Man’s Hall,” said the rich brother, throwing the ham to him.

Who acts: ham, you, rich brother · What happens: be, go, say, throw · To what, where: Hall, ham, Christmas · 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 (ham, you, rich brother), 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	_	4 here	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 here	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 said	parataxis
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ham	det
7	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 here	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 go	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 go	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 here	conj
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	19 Hall	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 Hall	case
16	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Man	compound
17	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Hall	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Man	case
19	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brother	det
24	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 brother	amod
25	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 throwing	punct
27	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ham	det
29	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 throwing	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 throwing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the ham					here property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	must	you			Dead Man's Hall	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the rich brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	throw	gerund	the rich brother not said here	the ham	Christmas				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ham=Theme to he=Destination

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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