The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 58

When the skipper had got the mill on his back he did not stay there long, for he was so afraid that the man would change his mind, and he had no time to ask how he was to stop it grinding, but got on board his ship as fast as he could.

Who acts: skipper, mill, man · What happens: get, not stay, be, change, have, ask · To what, where: mill, back, mind, ship · 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, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skipper	det
3	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 stay	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mill	det
7	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mill	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stay	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stay	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 stay	advmod
14	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 stay	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 stay	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 afraid	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 afraid	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 afraid	advmod
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stay	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 change	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 change	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 change	aux
27	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 afraid	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mind	nmod:poss
29	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 change	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stay	parataxis
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 ask	mark
37	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 time	acl
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 stop	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stop	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 stop	cop
41	to	to	PART	_	42 stop	mark
42	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 ask	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 stop	obj
44	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 stop	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 got	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 got	cc
47	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	conj
48	on	on	ADP	_	51 ship	case
49	board	board	ADP	_	51 ship	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 ship	nmod:poss
51	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 got	obl
52	as	as	ADV	_	53 fast	advmod
53	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 got	advmod
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 could	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 could	nsubj
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 fast	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	the skipper	the mill	mill's back			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mill=Theme on back=Source
2	not stay	past · do-support	mill		there		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	mill				afraid property	tree rules
4	change	would	the man	mill's mind				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
5	have	past	mill			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	mill not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	is not said to happen	past	mill				stop property	tree rules
8	grind	gerund	mill not said here					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	get	past	mill not said here		mill's ship		fast property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on ship=Source
10	mind		mill					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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