The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 21

“But, if I sell it, I will have the hand-mill which is standing there behind the door.”

Who acts: man, hand mill · What happens: sell, have, stand · To what, where: ham, 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 (man, 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	_	11 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 sell	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sell	nsubj
6	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sell	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mill	det
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mill	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 hand	punct
15	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 standing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 standing	aux
18	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 mill	acl:relcl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 standing	advmod
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 standing	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sell a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the man = man	ham		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	have in a quote	future	the man = man	the hand mill		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient
3	stand in a quote	present · progressive	the hand mill		the door; there	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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