Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 15

The miller smiled again, and said, "I do not know why you are sad, but I can eas-i-ly tell why I am glad.

Who acts: miller, you · What happens: smile, say, not know, be, tell · 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 (miller, you), 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	3 smiled	nsubj
3	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 smiled	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiled	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 sad	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sad	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sad	cop
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 know	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 tell	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
22	eas	eas	ADV	_	27 tell	advmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 eas	punct
24	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 i	punct
26	ly	ly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tell	amod
27	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smiled	parataxis
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 glad	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 glad	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 glad	cop
31	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tell	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the miller	again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the miller not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the miller = miller			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present	you		sad property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the miller = miller		eas property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	the miller = miller		glad 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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