Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 26
The king turned about, and walked sadly away; and the miller went back to his work singing:--
Who acts: king, miller · What happens: turn about, walk, go back, sing, work
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, miller), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 walked | cc |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 8 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 miller | det |
| 13 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn about | past | the king | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | the king not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | the miller | to miller's work result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | the miller not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | work | miller | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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