The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 43

When he got the door open, he did not stay long in the room, but ran out, and the herrings and pottage came after him, and it streamed out over both farm and field.

Who acts: mill, herrings, pottage · What happens: get, not stay, run out, come, stream out · To what, where: door, farm

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, herrings, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stay	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stay	advmod
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stay	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 long	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 ran	cc
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stay	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 ran	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 herrings	det
23	herrings	herring	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 came	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pottage	cc
25	pottage	pottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 herrings	conj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ran	conj
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 streamed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 streamed	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 streamed	nsubj
32	streamed	stream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	conj
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 streamed	advmod
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 farm	case
35	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	36 farm	det
36	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 streamed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 field	cc
38	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 farm	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	mill	the door			open property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
2	not stay	past · do-support	mill				long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run out	past						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the herrings and pottage			after mill		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stream out	past	pottage		both farm and field		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over farm=Location

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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