The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 40

So the mill began to grind herrings and milk pottage, and first all the dishes and tubs were filled, and then it came out all over the kitchen-floor.

Who acts: mill, pottage · What happens: begin, grind, fill, come out · To what, where: herrings, dishes, kitchen floor

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 (mill, pottage), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mill	det
3	mill	mill	NOUN	_	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grind	mark
6	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grind	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pottage	cc
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pottage	compound
10	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 herrings	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 filled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 filled	cc
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 all	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 dishes	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dishes	det
16	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 filled	nsubj:pass
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tubs	cc
18	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dishes	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 filled	aux:pass
20	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 came	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	all	all	ADV	_	32 floor	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	32 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 floor	det
30	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 floor	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 kitchen	punct
32	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the mill					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grind	to-infinitive	the mill not said here	herrings and milk pottage				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herring=Patient
3	fill	past · passive		all dishes and tubs				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	come out	past	pottage		the kitchen floor	then	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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