The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 192

Now it happened one day that he had an audience with the King, and in order to appear a person of some importance he told him that he had a daughter who could spin straw into gold.

Who acts: it, miller, person, daughter · What happens: happen, have, appear, tell, spin · To what, where: audience, miller, daughter, straw, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, miller, person, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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