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title: “Grind salt, and grind both quickly and well,” said the skipper. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Grind salt, and grind both quickly and well,” said the skipper. Who acts: skipper. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 60

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“Grind salt, and grind both quickly and well,” said the skipper.

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**Who acts:** skipper · **What happens:** grind, say · **To what, where:** salt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skipper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:20:60
# text = “Grind salt, and grind both quickly and well,” said the skipper.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Grind	grind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
3	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grind	grind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	skipper	skipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | salt |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient |
| 2 | **grind** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | both, quickly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the skipper |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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.

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**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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