The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 56

“Yes, it could make salt,” said he who owned it, and when the skipper heard that, he wished with all his might and main to have the mill, let it cost what it might, for, he thought, if he had it, he would get off having to sail far away over the perilous sea for freights of salt.

Who acts: skipper, mill · What happens: make, say, own, hear, wish, have · To what, where: salt, skipper, mill, perilous sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (skipper, mill), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 make	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 owned	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 owned	nsubj
13	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 owned	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 heard	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 skipper	det
19	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 wished	mark
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 that	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wished	nsubj
24	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	ccomp
25	with	with	SCONJ	_	28 might	mark
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 might	det:predet
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 might	nmod:poss
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 wished	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 main	cc
30	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wished	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 have	mark
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 main	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mill	det
34	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 cost	obj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 might	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 what	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 thought	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 thought	mark
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 for	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 thought	nsubj
46	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 cost	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 had	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 thought	ccomp
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 get	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 get	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 get	aux
55	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 heard	conj
56	off	off	ADP	_	55 get	compound:prt
57	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 get	xcomp
58	to	to	PART	_	59 sail	mark
59	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 having	xcomp
60	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	61 away	advmod
61	away	away	ADV	_	59 sail	advmod
62	over	over	ADP	_	65 sea	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 sea	det
64	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 sea	amod
65	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 sail	obl
66	for	for	ADP	_	67 freights	case
67	freights	freight	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 sail	obl
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 salt	case
69	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 freights	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	could	skipper	salt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material salt=Product
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	own	past	mill	skipper			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	hear	past	the skipper				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	wish	past	mill				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	have	to-infinitive	mill not said here	the mill			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient
7	let	infinitive	mill not said here	skipper			tree rules
8	cost	infinitive	skipper not said here				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value
9	think speech: other	past	mill				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	have a condition, not said to happen	past	mill	skipper			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
11	get off	would	mill				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
12	have	gerund	mill not said here				tree rules
13	sail	to-infinitive	mill not said here		the perilous sea	for freights of salt; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory

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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