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title: When you come out again I will teach you how to stop the hand-mill,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you come out again I will teach you how to stop the hand-mill, which is useful for almost everything.” Who acts: you, I, hand mill. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 17

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When you come out again I will teach you how to stop the hand-mill, which is useful for almost everything.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, hand mill · **What happens:** come out, teach, stop, be · **To what, where:** you, hand mill

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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 (you, I, hand mill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:20:17
# text = When you come out again I will teach you how to stop the hand-mill, which is useful for almost everything.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | you |  |  |  | again | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the hand mill |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality mill=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | present | the hand mill |  |  |  |  | for everything; useful *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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