The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 130

“If that is all,” said Ali Baba, “let me tell you that there shall be no salt in either the meat or the bread that we eat to-night.”

Who acts: all, salt, we · What happens: say, let, tell, be, eat · To what, where: all, you, salt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, salt, we), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 all	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 all	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ali	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 be	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 be	expl
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 be	aux
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	ccomp
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 salt	det
22	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 be	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 meat	case
24	either	either	CCONJ	_	26 meat	cc:preconj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 meat	det
26	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 salt	nmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 bread	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bread	det
29	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meat	conj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 eat	obj
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 eat	nsubj
32	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 salt	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 night	case
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 to	punct
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	all					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		all				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	all not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	shall	no salt in the meat or the bread			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat in a quote	present	we	no salt in the meat or the bread			night	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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