The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 128

He spent the night once more at the mill and gave the miller his answer, and by-and-by he told the three sisters not to throw out all their sweepings in the face of the sun.

Who acts: Luck, sisters · What happens: spend, give, tell, not throw out, answer, sweep · To what, where: mill, miller, three sisters, sweepings, face · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Luck, sisters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 spent	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 spent	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 mill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mill	det
9	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 miller	det
13	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 answer	nmod:poss
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 by	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spent	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sisters	det
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 sisters	nummod
27	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 told	iobj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 throw	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 throw	mark
30	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	ccomp
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 throw	compound:prt
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 sweepings	det:predet
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sweepings	nmod:poss
34	sweepings	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 throw	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 face	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 face	det
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sweepings	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 sun.	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sun.	det
40	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 face	nmod

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	Luck			the mill	night	once property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	Luck not said here	the miller					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent miller=Recipient answer=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Luck		the three sisters				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not throw out not said to happen	to-infinitive		sisters's sweepings		the face of the sun.			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sweeping=Theme in face=Destination
5	answer		Luck						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	sweep		sisters = sister			the face of the sun.			nom sweeping «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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