The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 132

“Who is this man,” she said, “who eats no salt with his meat?”

Who acts: man · What happens: be, say, eat · To what, where: man, 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 (man), 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	_	5 man	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 man	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eats	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 eats	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 eats	nsubj
13	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 salt	det
15	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eats	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 meat	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 meat	nmod:poss
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eats	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 eats	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 eats	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		this man		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	this man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat in a quote	present		no salt	with salt's meat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=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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