Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 7

As soon as he stepped inside of the mill, he heard the miller singing:--

Who acts: England, miller · What happens: step, hear, sing · To what, where: mill, miller

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 (England, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 heard	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 stepped	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stepped	nsubj
5	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	advcl
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 mill	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 inside	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mill	det
9	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stepped	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 miller	det
14	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
15	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 miller	acl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	past	England		the mill		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mill=Trajectory
2	hear	past	England	the miller		soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer miller=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the miller not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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