The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 17

When you come out again I will teach you how to stop the hand-mill, which is useful for almost everything.”

Who acts: you, I, hand mill · What happens: come out, teach, stop, be · To what, where: you, hand mill

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, I, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 teach	advcl
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 teach	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 teach	aux
8	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 teach	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 stop	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 teach	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mill	det
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mill	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 hand	punct
16	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stop	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 useful	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 useful	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 useful	cop
20	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mill	acl:relcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 everything	case
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 everything	advmod
23	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 useful	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 teach	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	you			again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	teach speech: other	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stop	to-infinitive	I not said here	the hand mill				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mill=Eventuality
4	is	present	the hand mill				for everything; useful property	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 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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