--- title: Everyone who sailed by there now had to be put in to visit the rich… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Everyone who sailed by there now had to be put in to visit the rich man in the gold farmhouse, and everyone wanted to see the wonderful mill, for the report of it spread far and wide, and there was no one who had not heard tell of it. Who acts: Everyone, one. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, one), 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:pg503:20:53 # text = Everyone who sailed by there now had to be put in to visit the rich man in the gold farmhouse, and everyone wanted to see the wonderful mill, for the report of it spread far and wide, and there was no one who had not heard tell of it. 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 obl _ _ 6 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ 11 in in ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 farmhouse farmhouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ _ 36 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 csubj _ _ 37 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 43 expl _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 49 nsubj _ _ 47 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 49 advmod _ _ 49 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 45 acl:relcl _ _ 50 tell tell NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | past | Everyone | | | | now | | tree rules | | 3 | **put in** | to-infinitive · passive | Everyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | | 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Everyone *not said here* | the rich man | | the gold farmhouse | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | | 5 | **want** | past | everyone | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | the wonderful mill | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mill=Stimulus | | 7 | **spread** | past | | | | | | for the report of farmhouse; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | past | | no one | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect | no one | tell of farmhouse | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tell=Stimulus | | 10 | **report** | | | farmhouse | | | | | nom report «communication transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/54/) - ↑ back to [Why the Sea Is Salt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/)