The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 53
Everyone who sailed by there now had to be put in to visit the rich man in the gold farmhouse, and everyone wanted to see the wonderful mill, for the report of it spread far and wide, and there was no one who had not heard tell of it.
Who acts: Everyone, one · What happens: sail, have, put in, visit, want, see · To what, where: rich man, gold farmhouse, wonderful mill, one, tell, farmhouse
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 (Everyone, one), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 had | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Everyone | acl:relcl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 there | case |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sailed | obl |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 visit | mark |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visit | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 farmhouse | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 farmhouse | det |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 farmhouse | compound |
| 20 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wanted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wanted | cc |
| 23 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 wanted | nsubj |
| 24 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wanted | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mill | det |
| 28 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mill | amod |
| 29 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 spread | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 report | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 report | det |
| 33 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spread | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 report | nmod |
| 36 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 one | csubj |
| 37 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 spread | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wide | cc |
| 39 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 far | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 was | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 was | cc |
| 42 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 43 was | expl |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 one | cop |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 one | det |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wanted | parataxis |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 heard | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 heard | aux |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 heard | advmod |
| 49 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 one | acl:relcl |
| 50 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 heard | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 it | case |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 tell | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | Everyone | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in | to-infinitive · passive | Everyone not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | |||||
| 4 | visit | to-infinitive | Everyone not said here | the rich man | the gold farmhouse | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | want | past | everyone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | the wonderful mill | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | spread | past | for the report of farmhouse; far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | not hear | past · perfect | no one | tell of farmhouse | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | report | farmhouse | nom report «communication 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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