English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 57

Then the young man answered up at once and said: “When a ship sails on the sea with men inside her.”

Who acts: young man, ship · What happens: answer up, say, sail · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, ship), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 answered	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 answered	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sails	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 sails	punct
13	When	when	SCONJ	_	16 sails	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ship	det
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sails	nsubj
16	sails	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sails	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 men	case
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sails	obl
22	inside	inside	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sails	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer up speech: assert	past	the young man		then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sail in a quote	present	a ship	the sea		with men; inside dead	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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