Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 34

Yes, indeed; what would the miller say?

Who acts: miller · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 indeed	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	the miller					indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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