The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 1

‘Uh!’ said she; ‘didn’t I tell you not to put any salt in it, and it’s just as salt as the sea.’

Who acts: she, I, salt · What happens: say, not tell, not put, be · To what, where: you, salt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, I, salt), 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 said	punct
2	Uh	uh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Uh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Uh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tell	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 put	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 put	mark
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	ccomp
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 salt	det
18	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 salt	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 salt	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 salt	nsubj
24	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 salt	cop
25	just	just	ADV	_	27 salt	advmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 salt	advmod
27	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 salt	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not put not said to happen	to-infinitive		any salt		salt		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme in it=Destination
4	is a	present	salt	salt			as the sea	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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