The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 36

When the brother saw that, he insisted on having the mill, and after a great deal of persuasion got it; but he had to give three hundred dollars for it, and the poor brother was to keep it till the haymaking was over, for he thought: “If I keep it as long as that, I can make it grind meat and drink that will last many a long year.”

Who acts: brother, Man, poor brother, haymaking, meat · What happens: see, insist, have, get, give, be · To what, where: that, mill, persuasion, hundred dollars, haymaking, meat · 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 (brother, Man, poor brother, haymaking), 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	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 insisted	advcl
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 insisted	nsubj
8	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	SCONJ	_	10 having	mark
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 insisted	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mill	det
12	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 having	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
15	after	after	ADP	_	18 deal	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deal	amod
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 persuasion	case
20	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deal	nmod
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 insisted	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 insisted	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hundred	compound
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 dollars	nummod
31	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 give	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 give	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 keep	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 keep	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 brother	det
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 brother	amod
38	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 keep	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 keep	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	41 keep	mark
41	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 keep	obj
43	till	till	SCONJ	_	47 over	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 haymaking	det
45	haymaking	haymaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 over	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 over	cop
47	over	over	ADV	_	41 keep	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 thought	punct
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 thought	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 thought	nsubj
51	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 had	conj
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	65 make	punct
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	65 make	punct
54	If	if	SCONJ	_	56 keep	mark
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 keep	nsubj
56	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 make	advcl
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 keep	obj
58	as	as	ADV	_	59 long	advmod
59	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 keep	advmod
60	as	as	ADP	_	61 that	case
61	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 long	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 keep	punct
63	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 make	nsubj
64	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 make	aux
65	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 thought	ccomp
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 make	obj
67	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 make	xcomp
68	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 grind	obj
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 drink	cc
70	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 meat	conj
71	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	73 last	nsubj
72	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 last	aux
73	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 meat	acl:relcl
74	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 last	obj
75	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	77 year	det
76	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 year	amod
77	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 many	obl:unmarked
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 insisted	punct
79	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 insisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the brother	that			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	insist speech: other	past	Man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	Man not said here	the mill			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient
4	get	past	Man not said here	persuasion	after a great deal of persuasion		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	have	past	Man				tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive	Man not said here	hundred dollars		for persuasion	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme for it=Asset
7	is	past	the poor brother			keep property	tree rules
8	is	past	the haymaking			over property	tree rules
9	think speech: other	past	Man				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Man	haymaking		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
11	make in a quote	can	Man	haymaking			tree rules
12	grind in a quote	infinitive	haymaking not said here	meat and drink			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
13	last in a quote	future	meat and drink	many			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme many=Value
14	deal			persuasion			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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