The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 9
“I have no doubt this is the place,” thought the man with the ham.
Who acts: man, this · What happens: have, be, think · To what, where: doubt, place · 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 (man, this), 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 | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 doubt | det |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 place | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 ham | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ham | det |
| 17 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the man = man | no doubt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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