The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 37

During that time you may imagine that the mill did not grow rusty, and when hay-harvest came the rich brother got it, but the other had taken good care not to teach him how to stop it.

Who acts: you, mill, hay harvest, rich brother, other · What happens: imagine, not grow, come, get, take, not teach · To what, where: harvest, good care, 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, mill, hay harvest, rich brother), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imagine	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 imagine	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	aux
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 grow	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mill	det
9	mill	mill	NOUN	_	12 grow	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grow	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 grow	advmod
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 imagine	ccomp
13	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grow	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
17	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 harvest	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hay	punct
19	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 imagine	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brother	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brother	amod
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taken	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 taken	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 taken	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 taken	aux
31	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 imagine	parataxis
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 care	amod
33	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taken	obj
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 teach	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 teach	mark
36	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 taken	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 teach	obj
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 stop	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 stop	mark
40	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 teach	xcomp
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stop	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	you			time		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not grow	past · do-support	the mill				rusty property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	hay harvest					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	past	the rich brother	harvest				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	take	past · perfect	the other	good care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	not teach speech: other	to-infinitive	the other not said here		mill			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	stop	to-infinitive	the other not said here	harvest				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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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