The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 65
When he was leaving next morning the miller asked him: “My gracious lord, where are you going all alone?”
Who acts: Luck, miller · What happens: leave, ask, go · To what, where: gracious lord, Luck · 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, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 leaving | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leaving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaving | aux |
| 4 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaving | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 miller | det |
| 8 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 lord | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lord | punct |
| 13 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lord | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lord | amod |
| 15 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 going | advmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 lord | parataxis |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 alone | advmod |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 going | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lord | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · progressive | Luck | morning | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the miller | My gracious lord | Luck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Luck | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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