The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 61

So the mill began to grind salt, till it spouted out like water, and when the skipper had got the ship filled he wanted to stop the mill, but whichsoever way he turned it, and how much soever he tried, it went on grinding, and the heap of salt grew higher and higher, until at last the ship sank.

Who acts: mill, salt, skipper, ship, heap, last ship · What happens: begin, grind, spout out, get, fill, want · To what, where: salt, mill, way, much, grinding

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, salt, skipper, ship), 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	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mill	det
3	mill	mill	NOUN	_	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grind	mark
6	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grind	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spouted	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 spouted	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spouted	nsubj
11	spouted	spout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 spouted	compound:prt
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spouted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 got	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 skipper	det
19	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	aux
21	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 began	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	nsubj
24	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 filled	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 stop	mark
28	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mill	det
30	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stop	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 turned	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 turned	cc
33	whichsoever	whichsoever	ADV	_	34 way	advmod
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turned	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 turned	nsubj
36	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 turned	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 tried	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 tried	cc
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 much	advmod
41	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 tried	obj
42	soever	soever	ADV	_	44 tried	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 tried	nsubj
44	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 went	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 went	nsubj
47	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
48	on	on	ADP	_	49 grinding	case
49	grinding	grinding	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 went	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 grew	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 grew	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 heap	det
53	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 grew	nsubj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 salt	case
55	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 heap	nmod
56	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
57	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	56 grew	xcomp
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 higher	cc
59	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	57 higher	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 sank	punct
61	until	until	SCONJ	_	66 sank	mark
62	at	at	ADP	_	63 last	case
63	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 ship	amod
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 ship	det
65	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 sank	nsubj
66	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 grew	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the mill				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grind	to-infinitive	the mill not said here	salt			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient
3	spout out	past	salt			like water	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	get	past · perfect	the skipper				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	fill	past	the ship				tree rules
6	want	past	mill				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	mill not said here	the mill			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mill=Eventuality
8	turn	past	mill	way			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
9	try	past	mill	much		soever property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality
10	go	past	salt		grinding		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grinding=Location
11	grow	past	the heap of salt			high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	sink	past	the last ship				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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