The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 7
“Well, I will do what I have promised,” said the other, and he took the ham and set off.
Who acts: other, Christmas · What happens: do, promise, say, take, set off · To what, where: other, ham · 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 (other, Christmas), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 promised | aux |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | 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 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ham | det |
| 21 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 took | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | the other = other | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the other = other | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Christmas | the ham | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ham=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set off | infinitive | Christmas not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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