The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 205

He had the miller’s daughter put into another room full of straw, much bigger than the first, and bade her, if she valued her life, spin it all into gold before the following morning.

Who acts: heart, daughter · What happens: have, put, bade, value, spin, follow · To what, where: daughter, room, life, gold

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 (heart, daughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 miller	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 daughter	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 straw	case
13	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 full	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bigger	punct
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 bigger	advmod
16	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 straw	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 first	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 first	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 bigger	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bade	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bade	cc
22	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bade	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 valued	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 valued	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 valued	nsubj
27	valued	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bade	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 valued	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spin	punct
31	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 valued	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spin	obj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 it	det
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 gold	case
35	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spin	obl
36	before	before	ADP	_	39 morning	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 morning	det
38	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 morning	amod
39	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spin	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	heart	the miller's daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	put	participle		the miller's daughter not said here	another room		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	bade	past		daughter			tree rules
4	value a condition, not said to happen	past	daughter	daughter's life			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
5	spin	infinitive	daughter not said here	life	gold	morning	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into gold=Trajectory
6	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/205/