The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 41

The man twisted and turned it, and did all he could to make the mill stop, but, howsoever he turned it and screwed it, the mill went on grinding, and in a short time the pottage rose so high that the man was like to be drowned.

Who acts: man, mill, pottage · What happens: twist, turn, do, make, stop, screw · To what, where: pottage, all, mill, grinding

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twisted	nsubj
3	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 turned	cc
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twisted	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 did	cc
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twisted	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 did	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 all	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 did	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mill	det
16	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 turned	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
21	howsoever	howsoever	ADV	_	23 turned	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twisted	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 turned	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 screwed	cc
26	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 screwed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mill	det
30	mill	mill	NOUN	_	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twisted	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 grinding	case
33	grinding	grinding	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 rose	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rose	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 time	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 time	det
38	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 time	amod
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rose	obl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pottage	det
41	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rose	nsubj
42	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twisted	conj
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 high	advmod
44	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 rose	xcomp
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 like	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 man	det
47	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 like	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 like	cop
49	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 high	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	52 drowned	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 drowned	aux:pass
52	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 like	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 twisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	past	the man					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past	the man not said here	pottage				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	do	past	the man not said here	all				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive	the man not said here	the mill				tree rules
5	stop	infinitive	the mill not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	turn	past	mill	pottage			howsoever property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	screw	past	mill not said here	pottage				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	go	past	the mill		grinding			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grinding=Location
9	rise	past	the pottage			time	high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	the man				like property	tree rules
11	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the man not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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