--- title: During that time you may imagine that the mill did not grow rusty, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: During that time you may imagine that the mill did not grow rusty, and when hay-harvest came the rich brother got it, but the other had taken good care not to teach him how to stop it. Who acts: you, mill, hay harvest, rich brother. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Why the Sea Is Salt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/) / 37 # The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 37 During that time you may imagine that the mill did not grow rusty, and when hay-harvest came the rich brother got it, but the other had taken good care not to teach him how to stop it. **Who acts:** you, mill, hay harvest, rich brother, other · **What happens:** imagine, not grow, come, get, take, not teach · **To what, where:** harvest, good care, mill 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, mill, hay harvest, rich brother), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:20:37 # text = During that time you may imagine that the mill did not grow rusty, and when hay-harvest came the rich brother got it, but the other had taken good care not to teach him how to stop it. 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mill mill NOUN NN _ 12 nsubj _ _ 10 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 13 rusty rusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 17 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | may | you | | | | time | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **grow** | past · do-support | the mill | | | | | rusty *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | hay harvest | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | the rich brother | harvest | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **take** | past · perfect | the other | good care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 6 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the other *not said here* | | mill | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the other *not said here* | harvest | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/38/) - ↑ back to [Why the Sea Is Salt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/)