The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 108
‘Now you must empty all the salt into the porridge-pot,’ said Snati.
Who acts: you, Snati · What happens: empty, say · To what, where: salt, porridge pot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Snati), 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 empty | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 empty | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | aux |
| 5 | empty | empty | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 salt | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 salt | det |
| 8 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 11 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 porridge | punct |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | empty | must | you | all salt | the porridge pot | now | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme into pot=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Snati | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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