Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 14

"Now tell me," said the king, "what makes you so cheerful and glad here in your dusty mill, while I, who am king, am sad and in trouble every day."

Who acts: king · What happens: tell, say, make, be · To what, where: king, you, dusty mill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 makes	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 cheerful	advmod
16	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 makes	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 glad	cc
18	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cheerful	conj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 makes	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 mill	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mill	nmod:poss
22	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mill	amod
23	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 makes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 I	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 I	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 sad	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 king	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 king	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 king	cop
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 I	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 king	punct
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sad	cop
33	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 makes	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 trouble	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 trouble	case
36	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sad	conj
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 day	det
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sad	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 sad	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the king = king		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	present		you		your dusty mill; here		cheerful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product
4	is a in a quote	present		king					tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	the king = king				day	sad property	tree rules

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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