The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 52

So it was not long before he had a farmhouse much finer than that in which his brother lived, but the mill ground him so much money that he covered it with plates of gold; and the farmhouse lay close by the sea-shore, so it shone and glittered far out to sea.

Who acts: mill, pottage, finer, mill ground, farmhouse · What happens: have, be, live, money, cover, lay · To what, where: farmhouse, much money

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, finer, mill ground), 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	_	12 finer	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 finer	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 finer	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 finer	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 finer	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 farmhouse	det
10	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 finer	advmod
12	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 lived	nsubj
13	than	than	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 finer	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lived	obl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 money	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 money	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
23	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ground	compound
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 money	nsubj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ground	nmod
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 money	amod
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 covered	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 covered	nsubj
31	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 money	acl:relcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 covered	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 plates	case
34	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 covered	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 gold	case
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 plates	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 lay	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lay	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 farmhouse	det
40	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lay	nsubj
41	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lived	parataxis
42	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 lay	advmod
43	by	by	ADP	_	47 shore	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 shore	det
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 shore	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 sea	punct
47	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 close	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 shone	punct
49	so	so	ADV	_	51 shone	advmod
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 shone	nsubj
51	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 lay	advcl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 glittered	cc
53	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 shone	conj
54	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 out	advmod
55	out	out	ADV	_	53 glittered	advmod
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 sea	case
57	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 glittered	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	mill	a farmhouse		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Patient
2	is	past	pottage		than that; fine, long property	tree rules
3	live	past	finer			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
4	money		the mill ground mill			tree rules
5	cover	past	mill	much money	with plates of gold	tree rules
6	lay	present	the farmhouse		close property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	shine	past	pottage			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	glitter	past	pottage not said here		to sea; out property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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