The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 23

When the man came out again into the yard, he asked the old wood-cutter how he was to stop the hand-mill, and when he had learned that, he thanked him and set off home with all the speed he could, but did not get there until after the clock had struck twelve on Christmas Eve.

Who acts: man · What happens: come out, ask, be, learn, thank, set off · To what, where: old wood cutter, mill, twelve · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	advcl
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 yard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cutter	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cutter	amod
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cutter	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 wood	punct
17	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 stop	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stop	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 stop	mark
22	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cutter	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mill	det
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mill	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 hand	punct
26	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stop	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 learned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 learned	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 learned	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 learned	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 learned	aux
32	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 asked	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 thanked	mark
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 that	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thanked	nsubj
36	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 learned	ccomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thanked	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 set	cc
39	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 thanked	conj
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 set	compound:prt
41	home	home	ADV	_	39 set	advmod
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 speed	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 speed	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 speed	det
45	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 set	obl
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 could	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 speed	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 get	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 get	cc
50	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 get	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 get	advmod
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	conj
53	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 get	advmod
54	until	until	SCONJ	_	59 struck	mark
55	after	after	ADP	_	57 clock	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 clock	det
57	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 struck	obl
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 struck	aux
59	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 get	advcl
60	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 struck	obj
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 Eve.	case
62	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 Eve.	compound
63	Eve.	Eve.	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 struck	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the man				again	into the yard; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	Man	the old wood cutter					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cutter=Recipient
3	is	past	Man	the old wood cutter not said here				stop property	tree rules
4	learn	past · perfect	Man						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	thank speech: thank	past	Man		mill				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	set off	infinitive	Man not said here					with all speed; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not get	past · do-support	Man not said here			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	strike	past · perfect	Man not said here	twelve			after the clock	on Christmas Eve.	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent twelve=Instrument on eve.=Patient

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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