The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 42

So he threw open the parlor door, but it was not long before the mill had ground the parlor full too, and it was with difficulty and danger that the man could go through the stream of pottage and get hold of the door-latch.

Who acts: mill, pottage, man · What happens: throw, open, not be, have, be, go · To what, where: parlor door, ground, difficulty, stream, hold, door latch

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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 threw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 threw	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 long	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 long	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 threw	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mill	det
16	mill	mill	NOUN	_	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	advcl
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 parlor	det
20	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 parlor	amod
22	too	too	ADV	_	21 full	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 difficulty	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 difficulty	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 difficulty	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 difficulty	cop
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 difficulty	case
28	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 danger	cc
30	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 difficulty	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 go	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 difficulty	acl
36	through	through	ADP	_	38 stream	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stream	det
38	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 pottage	case
40	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stream	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 get	cc
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 go	conj
43	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 latch	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 latch	det
46	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 latch	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 door	punct
48	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 hold	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	mill				tree rules
2	open	infinitive	mill not said here	the parlor door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	not is	past	pottage			long property	tree rules
4	have	past	the mill	ground			tree rules
5	is	past	pottage			with difficulty and danger	tree rules
6	go	could	the man	difficulty and danger not said here	the stream of pottage		tree rules
7	get	infinitive	the man not said here	hold of the door latch			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
8	hold			the door latch			nom hold «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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