Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 27
"Oh, I'm as happy as happy can be, For I live by the side of the River Dee!"
Who acts: miller · What happens: be, live
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), 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 | _ | 7 happy | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 happy | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 happy | case |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happy | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 13 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Dee | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Dee | det |
| 21 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Dee | compound |
| 22 | Dee | Dee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the miller = miller | as happy; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | can in a quote | can | the miller = miller not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | the miller = miller | by the side of the River Dee | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
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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