The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 116

“And why is it that a miller, who has a large mill with all the best machinery and gets plenty of corn to grind is so poor that he can hardly live from day to day?”

Who acts: face, miller · What happens: be, have, get, grind, live · To what, where: large mill, plenty

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, 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	_	29 poor	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 why	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 poor	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 why	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 poor	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 poor	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 miller	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mill	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mill	amod
14	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 machinery	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 machinery	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 machinery	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 machinery	amod
19	machinery	machinery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mill	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gets	cc
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 has	conj
22	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gets	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 corn	case
24	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plenty	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 grind	mark
26	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 plenty	acl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 poor	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 poor	advmod
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 live	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 live	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 live	aux
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	34 live	advmod
34	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 poor	advcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 day	case
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 live	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 day	case
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 live	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 poor	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	face			why property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	a miller	a large mill		with all best machinery	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Patient
3	get in a quote	present	a miller not said here	plenty of corn			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus
4	grind in a quote	to-infinitive	a miller not said here	plenty of corn not said here			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is in a quote	present	a miller			poor property	tree rules
6	live in a quote	can	miller		day	hardly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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