The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 62
There lies the mill at the bottom of the sea, and still, day by day, it grinds on; and that is why the sea is salt.
Who acts: ship, that, sea · What happens: lie, grind on, be · To what, where: mill, bottom, salt
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 (ship, that, sea), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lies | expl |
| 2 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mill | det |
| 4 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 still | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 still | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 lies | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grinds | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grinds | nsubj |
| 20 | grinds | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lies | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 grinds | compound:prt |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 why | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 why | cc |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 why | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 why | cop |
| 26 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 lies | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sea | det |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 salt | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 salt | cop |
| 30 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 why | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the mill | the bottom of the sea; there | still; day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mill=Theme | |||
| 2 | grind on | present | ship | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the sea | salt | tree rules |
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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