The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 34

“From behind the door,” said he who owned the mill, for he did not choose to satisfy his brother on that point; but later in the evening, when he had taken a drop too much, he could not refrain from telling how he had come by the hand-mill.

Who acts: Man · What happens: say, own, not choose, satisfy, take, not refrain · To what, where: door, mill, brother, point, drop · 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	From	from	ADP	_	5 door	case
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 door	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 door	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 owned	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 owned	nsubj
11	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mill	det
13	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 owned	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 choose	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 choose	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 choose	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 choose	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 choose	advmod
19	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 owned	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 satisfy	mark
21	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 choose	xcomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brother	nmod:poss
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 satisfy	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 point	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 point	det
26	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 satisfy	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 evening	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 later	cc
29	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 evening	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 evening	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 evening	det
32	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 taken	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 taken	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 taken	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 taken	aux
37	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 evening	acl:relcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 drop	det
39	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 taken	obj
40	too	too	ADV	_	41 much	advmod
41	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 drop	amod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 refrain	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 refrain	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 refrain	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 refrain	advmod
46	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
47	from	from	SCONJ	_	48 telling	mark
48	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 refrain	advcl
49	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	52 come	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 come	nsubj
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 come	aux
52	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 telling	ccomp
53	by	by	ADP	_	57 mill	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 mill	det
55	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 mill	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 hand	punct
57	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 come	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			the door	evening		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	own	past	Man	the mill				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mill=Theme
3	not choose	past · do-support	Man					tree rules
4	satisfy	to-infinitive	Man not said here	Man's brother	that point			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer
5	take	past · perfect	Man	a drop				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme
6	not refrain	could	Man					vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	gerund	Man not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	come	past · perfect	Man				by the hand mill	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mill=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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