More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 55

The miller was sifting meal in the trough; but, looking up: "Ay," quoth he, "it's a sign of plenty when ye're running about, and nobody to look after ye.

Who acts: miller, ye · What happens: sift, be, look up, quoth, run about, look · To what, where: sifting meal, trough, man, sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, ye), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meal	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 meal	cop
4	sifting	sift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 meal	amod
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 trough	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trough	det
8	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meal	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 looking	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 meal	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 looking	compound:prt
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 quoth	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 quoth	punct
16	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	19 quoth	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Ay	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 quoth	punct
19	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 looking	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quoth	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sign	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 sign	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sign	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sign	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sign	det
26	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 quoth	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 plenty	case
28	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sign	nmod
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 running	advmod
30	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 running	nsubj
31	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 running	aux
32	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 sign	acl
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 running	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nobody	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 nobody	cc
36	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 meal	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 look	mark
38	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 nobody	acl
39	after	after	ADP	_	40 ye	case
40	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 look	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 meal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sift	gerund						vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the miller	sifting meal	the trough			tree rules
3	look up	gerund	the miller not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	quoth	infinitive		man				tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	miller	a sign			of plenty	tree rules
6	run about in a quote	present · progressive	ye				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	look in a quote	to-infinitive	the miller not said here			after ye		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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