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title: So it was not long before he had a farmhouse much finer than that in… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So it was not long before he had a farmhouse much finer than that in which his brother lived, but the mill ground him so much money that he covered it with plates of gold; and the farmhouse lay close by the sea-shore, so it shone and glittered far out to sea. Who acts: mill, pottage, finer, mill gro
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 52

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So it was not long before he had a farmhouse much finer than that in which his brother lived, but the mill ground him so much money that he covered it with plates of gold; and the farmhouse lay close by the sea-shore, so it shone and glittered far out to sea.

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**Who acts:** mill, pottage, finer, mill ground, farmhouse · **What happens:** have, be, live, money, cover, lay · **To what, where:** farmhouse, much money

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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 (mill, pottage, finer, mill ground), 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:pg503:20:52
# text = So it was not long before he had a farmhouse much finer than that in which his brother lived, but the mill ground him so much money that he covered it with plates of gold; and the farmhouse lay close by the sea-shore, so it shone and glittered far out to sea.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	nsubj	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
42	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
54	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
55	out	out	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | mill | a farmhouse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | pottage |  |  |  |  | than that; fine, long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | finer |  |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 4 | **money** |  | the mill ground  mill |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cover** | past | mill | much money |  |  |  | with plates of gold | tree rules |
| 6 | **lay** | present | the farmhouse |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shine** | past | pottage |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **glitter** | past | pottage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to sea; out *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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