Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 108

The miller’s house was close by, and the miller, you must know, had a very beautiful daughter.

Who acts: house, you, miller · What happens: be, know, have · To what, where: miller, beautiful daughter

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, you, 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	4 house	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 miller	case
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 close	cop
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 close	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 miller	det
11	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 miller	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 miller	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 miller	punct
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 close	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 daughter	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 beautiful	advmod
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daughter	amod
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the miller's house		close property	tree rules
2	know	must	you	the miller not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer miller=Stimulus
3	have	past	the miller	a beautiful daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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