The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 132

The miller, too, began to give alms and became a very good man, and in time grew so rich that he hardly knew how much he had.

Who acts: miller · What happens: begin, give, become, grow, know, have · To what, where: alms, good man, much · 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 (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 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 miller	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 began	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 too	punct
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 give	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 time	case
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obl
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 rich	advmod
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	26 knew	advmod
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rich	advcl
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 had	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knew	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the miller				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	give	to-infinitive	the miller not said here	alms			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme
3	become	past	the miller not said here	a good man			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	grow	past	the miller not said here		time	rich property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	miller			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	miller	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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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