The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 60
“Grind salt, and grind both quickly and well,” said the skipper.
Who acts: skipper · What happens: grind, say · To what, where: salt · 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 (skipper), 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 | _ | 2 Grind | punct |
| 2 | Grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Grind | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grind | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grind | cc |
| 6 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Grind | conj |
| 7 | both | both | ADV | _ | 6 grind | advmod |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 grind | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 well | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 quickly | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grind | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grind | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skipper | det |
| 15 | skipper | skipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind in a quote | infinitive | salt | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grind in a quote | present | both, quickly property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the skipper | 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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