The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 131

‘Alas! yes,’ said the miller, ‘last night the wolves have eaten our fattest ram there by the kiln not far from here.’

Who acts: kiln · What happens: say, eat · To what, where: miller, wolves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kiln), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 miller	det
9	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eaten	obl:unmarked
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wolves	det
15	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eaten	nsubj:pass
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eaten	aux
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	ccomp
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ram	nmod:poss
19	fattest	fat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 ram	amod
20	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eaten	obj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 eaten	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 kiln	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kiln	det
24	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eaten	obl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 eaten	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 here	case
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 far	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the miller					tree rules
2	eat	present · perfect · passive	the kiln	the wolves		there	night	far property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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