The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 16

“When you get inside they will all want to buy your ham, for they don’t get much meat to eat there; but you must not sell it unless you can get the hand-mill which stands behind the door for it.

Who acts: you, brothers, hand mill · What happens: get, want, buy, not get, eat, not sell · To what, where: ham, much meat, hand mill, door

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 (you, brothers, hand mill), 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	_	4 get	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 want	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 want	aux
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 want	advmod
9	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 buy	mark
11	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ham	nmod:poss
13	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buy	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 get	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 get	advmod
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 buy	parataxis
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meat	amod
21	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 eat	mark
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 get	advcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 eat	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sell	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 sell	cc
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sell	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sell	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 sell	advmod
30	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sell	obj
32	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	35 get	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sell	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mill	det
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mill	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 hand	punct
39	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 stands	nsubj
41	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 mill	acl:relcl
42	behind	behind	ADP	_	44 door	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 door	det
44	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stands	obl
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stands	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	want in a quote	future	brothers = brother			all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	buy not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	your ham			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ham=Theme
4	not get in a quote	present · do-support	brothers = brother	much meat			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here		there		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not sell in a quote	must	you	ham			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	the hand mill			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus
8	stand in a quote	present	the hand mill		the door	for door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location

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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