Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 16

The miller had generally a great deal to talk about, and seemed to expect that every one should listen to his jokes, and laugh at them; for was not he the rich miller?

Who acts: miller, one, Rudy · What happens: have, talk about, seem, expect, listen, laugh · To what, where: great deal

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, one, Rudy), 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	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	generally	generally	ADV	_	7 deal	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 deal	acl
10	about	about	ADP	_	9 talk	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 expect	mark
15	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 listen	mark
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 listen	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 listen	aux
20	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 expect	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 jokes	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 jokes	nmod:poss
23	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 listen	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laugh	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laugh	cc
26	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 laugh	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 miller	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	36 miller	case
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 miller	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 miller	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 miller	nsubj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 miller	det
35	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 miller	amod
36	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	conj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the miller	a great deal		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
2	talk about	to-infinitive	the miller not said here	a great deal not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	expect	to-infinitive				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	listen	should	every one		to Rudy's jokes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to joke=Theme
6	laugh	infinitive	the miller not said here		at miller	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not is	past	Rudy		for the rich miller	tree rules
8	joke		Rudy			nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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